All Quotes

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.
‐‐ Hank Azaria

Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.
‐‐ Vanity

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

Getting permission to use a drone in Egypt was problematical.
‐‐ Sarah Parcak

Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.
‐‐ Bernadette Peters

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
‐‐ Emily Procter

Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
‐‐ Laura Robson

Getting ready to wrestle is like getting ready for a car crash. Getting ready to work with Brock Lesnar is like knowing you're going to get hit by a bus and the bus is going to back over you. If I'm going to work 'WrestleMania,' 16 weeks out I have to start training like I'm Mayweather getting ready for a fight.
‐‐ Triple H

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
‐‐ Kate McKinnon

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn't just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color - they calculated only a 14 percent chance they'd find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
‐‐ Ludwig Borne

Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.
‐‐ Ismail Haniyeh

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
‐‐ George Ayittey

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.
‐‐ Kirk Hammett

Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.
‐‐ Li Shufu

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
‐‐ Kamala Harris

Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.
‐‐ Mary Lambert

Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.
‐‐ Bill Hader

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
‐‐ Jamie Lee Curtis

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.
‐‐ Mark Goddard

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.
‐‐ Dan Gelber

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird.
‐‐ Chris Roberson

Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

Getting the ideas are a struggle for me. I'm doing better now that I use the concentration tapes. More unusual ideas.
‐‐ Phyllis A. Whitney

Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.
‐‐ Janice Markowitz

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
‐‐ Billy Bob Thornton

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Brothers Grimm.' Once the film came out and didn't do so well, the director Terry Gilliam blamed me for absolutely everything. It was pretty appalling, and I had started to wonder if I'd ever get another job again when I was asked to audition for '300.'
‐‐ Lena Headey

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.
‐‐ Jonah Goldberg

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
‐‐ Donald Trump

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.
‐‐ Steve Wynn

Getting three gold medals is something I'll really cherish.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
‐‐ Ann Bancroft

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.
‐‐ Stuart Appleby

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
‐‐ Zac Brown

Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.
‐‐ Mary Lou Retton