All Quotes

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things.
‐‐ Mark O'Donnell

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.
‐‐ Linda Hunt

I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.
‐‐ Alain de Botton

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
‐‐ Jonathan Edwards

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.
‐‐ Evelyn Glennie

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

I associate music with fun and joy.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.
‐‐ Elfriede Jelinek

I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
‐‐ Padgett Powell

I associate wisdom and grace with age.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.
‐‐ Armando Iannucci

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.
‐‐ Michael Moore

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.
‐‐ Mira Sorvino

I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
‐‐ Karen Joy Fowler

I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect.
‐‐ Jennifer Hale

I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.
‐‐ John Hickenlooper

I assume you know what to do with this. That's why you were hired.
‐‐ Grant Tinker

I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.
‐‐ Rodman Philbrick

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.
‐‐ Traian Basescu

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

I assure you I will not miss the chance to show you that you were right when you voted for me.
‐‐ Traian Basescu

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
‐‐ Aslan Maskhadov

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.
‐‐ Rodger Ward

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.
‐‐ George Crook

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'
‐‐ John Eccles

I - at the table reads, I break constantly. If something is up there that I'm not expecting, I tend to - I can't help myself; I'll start laughing.
‐‐ Bill Hader

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!
‐‐ Hilary Duff

I ate ants. They weren't that bad.
‐‐ Leslie Hope

I ate everything - a lot of pizza, bags of chips and boxes of cookies. Now I love chicken, that's all I eat.
‐‐ Robert Iler

I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn't expect. The food in Istanbul was amazing. I never would've expected that and the food, I guess you're learning something about me, the food in Prague, they're very, very heavy meat eaters, like, a lot of meat, which is great.
‐‐ Cliff Curtis

I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.
‐‐ John James Audubon

I ate some pretty funky, authentic Chinese food in Hong Kong. There was an egg from some bird that's not a chicken. I can't remember what it was, but it was green and brown and not very tasty.
‐‐ John Legend

I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.
‐‐ Eric Davis

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.
‐‐ Eric Shanteau

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!
‐‐ Olesya Rulin

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
‐‐ Elizabeth George

I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
‐‐ Emily Blunt

I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.
‐‐ Jamie Lee Curtis

I attend dance class every alternate day, and it works like a cardio workout for me. I also do weight training in the gym every alternate day.
‐‐ Tena Desae