All Quotes

I came to the Kardashians a bit late, and I'm still just gob-smacked. Who are these people?
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders

I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.
‐‐ Cote de Pablo

I came to the Steelers after four years of high school and four years of college, and now I look on my stay here as 13 years of postgraduate work; I think I'm ready for the world.
‐‐ Joe Greene

I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya

I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys.
‐‐ Alan Dale

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
‐‐ Ian Hamilton Finlay

I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.
‐‐ Dave Gibbons

I came to this country when I was 12 years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.
‐‐ Cristina Saralegui

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
‐‐ Lee Ann Womack

I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture is free of contradiction and error - doctrinally, historically, and scientifically.
‐‐ Hugh Ross

I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
‐‐ Shakira

I came to Vegas because I wanted to, not because I thought it could help my career. I didn't even know they had comedy clubs here.
‐‐ Ron Shock

I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.
‐‐ Pete Rose

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
‐‐ Donna Leon

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
‐‐ Candice S. Miller

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
‐‐ Liam Neeson

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
‐‐ Sandra Brown

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.
‐‐ Kate Thompson

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.
‐‐ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.
‐‐ Harriet Walter

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.
‐‐ Laurence Fishburne

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.
‐‐ Michael Clarke Duncan

I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.
‐‐ Zachary Quinto

I came up from a difficult background.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
‐‐ Jack White

I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer.
‐‐ Roger Deakins

I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.
‐‐ Stan Musial

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
‐‐ Eddie Bernice Johnson

I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.
‐‐ Richie Havens

I came up in gospel.
‐‐ Aretha Franklin

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
‐‐ Dallas Roberts

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.
‐‐ Michael Franti

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.
‐‐ Evander Holyfield

I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
‐‐ Marc Guggenheim

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.
‐‐ Roma Downey

I came up with a 'forecasting cell,' which is basically a mixed intention cell or chord that is a complete hybrid of a consonance and a dissonance, and what that does when you are improvising is lead you to where you are supposed to go.
‐‐ Christian Scott

I came up with a story and I wrote it.
‐‐ E. L. James

I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

I came up with Hotmail's viral marketing idea.
‐‐ Timothy C. Draper

I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.
‐‐ Bertrand Piccard

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
‐‐ Dick Schaap

I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees.
‐‐ Tom Golisano

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
‐‐ Criss Angel