All Quotes

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
‐‐ Brian Eno

I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
‐‐ Valentina Tereshkova

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.
‐‐ Jennifer Connelly

I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me on for three or four weeks, saying I was back on the show, but not really writing for me. And then I would be gone. I just didn't like that anymore. I guess it was me putting my foot down.
‐‐ Genie Francis

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.
‐‐ Jonathan Demme

I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Wood

I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
‐‐ Olivia De Havilland

I felt good in all my fights. It's all in the preparation. I prepare myself for all of them. And I felt good in all my fights.
‐‐ Juan Manuel Marquez

I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.
‐‐ Cat Osterman

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
‐‐ Bernadine Dohrn

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.
‐‐ John Perkins

I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.
‐‐ Delta Goodrem

I felt I could play in maybe a dozen tournaments a year as an amateur.
‐‐ Matt Kuchar

I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.
‐‐ Rachael Ray

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
‐‐ John Wesley

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
‐‐ Aloe Blacc

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.
‐‐ Mariel Hemingway

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.
‐‐ Benjamin Orr

I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.
‐‐ Bruce Beutler

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
‐‐ David Bowie

I felt I was owned by possessions.
‐‐ Nicolas Berggruen

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.
‐‐ Robert Merrill

I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.
‐‐ Dave Chappelle

I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.
‐‐ David Levering Lewis

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
‐‐ Carry Nation

I felt it absolutely essential that we plant the U.N. flag in Rwanda and plant it in a place of significance to show all the political entities, all the signees of the agreement and the Rwandans... that the international community were here and we're here to stay and we're going to be doing our job.
‐‐ Romeo Dallaire

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.
‐‐ Martin Puryear

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna

I felt it was time for there to be a document of what we sound like now.
‐‐ Bruce Hornsby

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
‐‐ Don DeLillo

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.
‐‐ Richard Hell

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.
‐‐ Christina Milian

I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.
‐‐ Richard Jewell

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.
‐‐ Don Knotts

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.
‐‐ Clare Balding

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.
‐‐ Chely Wright

I felt like Alan Turing's story was such an important story to tell, and it was so wonderful to write the script and other people find it and say, 'I never heard this story.' It's such an amazing story that people don't believe it.
‐‐ Graham Moore

I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.
‐‐ Paula Jones

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.
‐‐ George Weinberg

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.
‐‐ Dario Fo

I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
‐‐ Saku Koivu

I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.
‐‐ Peter Uihlein

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
‐‐ Dennis Rodman

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.'
‐‐ Gilbert Hernandez

I felt like for what I needed, Bad Boy got me... they got me covered. Especially Puff, man. He's going to be the first billionaire rap entertainer. At the end of the day, they need me. Other artists-labels don't need me, but Bad Boy and Puff needs me. And I need them. It goes both ways.
‐‐ French Montana