All Quotes

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.
‐‐ Mark E. Smith

He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953.
‐‐ Sydney Brenner

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
‐‐ Ralph Abernathy

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
‐‐ Henry Adams

He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.
‐‐ Jack Youngblood

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
‐‐ Milan Kundera

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
‐‐ Margaret Truman

He travels best that knows when to return.
‐‐ Thomas Middleton

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
‐‐ Florence King

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.
‐‐ Hernan Cortes

He travels the fastest who travels alone.
‐‐ Rudyard Kipling

He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
‐‐ Earl Scruggs

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
‐‐ Marion Zimmer Bradley

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.
‐‐ Rosario Dawson

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
‐‐ Andrew Lang

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
‐‐ Romano Prodi

He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
‐‐ Lance Morrow

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.
‐‐ Bob Crosby

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
‐‐ John Leguizamo

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.
‐‐ Matthew Sweet

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.
‐‐ Luciano Pavarotti

He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.
‐‐ Don Shula

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
‐‐ Arthur Miller

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
‐‐ Mario Puzo

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.
‐‐ Kenny Cunningham

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.
‐‐ Maxwell Anderson

He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older.
‐‐ Steven Hall

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
‐‐ Voltaire

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
‐‐ Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

He was a man, he always performed his promises.
‐‐ Zebulon Pike

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
‐‐ Ben E. King

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.
‐‐ Ryan Giggs

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
‐‐ Mark Rydell

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
‐‐ Joseph Heller

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
‐‐ Cab Calloway

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.
‐‐ Geoffrey Boycott

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
‐‐ P. G. Wodehouse

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
‐‐ John Sexton

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.
‐‐ Doc Severinsen

He was a wise man who invented beer.
‐‐ Plato

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
‐‐ Euripides