All Quotes

I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
‐‐ Vanessa Carlton

I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.
‐‐ Robert Winston

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
‐‐ Yannick Noah

I did not take a calculus course until my second year of college.
‐‐ Robert Coleman Richardson

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
‐‐ Nicholas Mosley

I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
‐‐ Preston Sturges

I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
‐‐ Christopher Darden

I did not think this doll could ever be this huge.
‐‐ Ruth Handler

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.
‐‐ Rosie Perez

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.
‐‐ Eleonora Duse

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

I did not walk every step of the Trail of Tears at one time. Instead, over the last 20 years, I have walked various segments of it in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
‐‐ Joseph Bruchac

I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.
‐‐ Peter Berg

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
‐‐ Ann Richards

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.
‐‐ Richard Blumenthal

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
‐‐ Martha Graham

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
‐‐ Ella Maillart

I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
‐‐ Issey Miyake

I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.
‐‐ Mick Rock

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
‐‐ Daley Thompson

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.
‐‐ Andy Grove

I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
‐‐ Iman

I did not want to go anywhere where I would be interim.
‐‐ Gordon Gee

I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
‐‐ A. James Clark

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.
‐‐ Al Leiter

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
‐‐ Courtney Love

I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'.
‐‐ John Pistole

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
‐‐ Geoffrey Rush

I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
‐‐ Luke Ford

I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
‐‐ Shakira

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
‐‐ Sarah Zettel

I did not want to write just another business book.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
‐‐ Robert M. Pirsig

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.
‐‐ Ellsworth Kelly

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

I did not work out while I was pregnant. I felt like I was having symptoms of a heart attack every time I worked out, so I enjoyed eating like a third grader and gained 55 pounds!
‐‐ Diane Farr

I did not write any of the letters that were ever published as investment commentary.
‐‐ Matt Bevin

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
‐‐ Harriet Beecher Stowe

I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I did nothing but dramas for seven years in New York. I didn't really start anything comedic until I moved out to L.A. and found The Groundlings.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.
‐‐ James Roday

I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.
‐‐ Steven Curtis Chapman

I did nothing to look the way I look. The genetic cards that anyone is dealt are not in their control, so to take pride in my looks would be a mistake. And besides, in L.A. there's always someone more beautiful!
‐‐ Amber Heard

I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
‐‐ Katherine Jenkins