All Quotes

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
‐‐ Ossie Davis

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly helpful.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.
‐‐ John Updike

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
‐‐ Edward Hopper

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
‐‐ Mahavishnu John McLaughlin

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.
‐‐ Bill Kreutzmann

I find inspiration for my line of jewelry from traveling and from my lifestyle. I have three collections: New York, Palm Beach, and Paris.
‐‐ Melania Trump

I find inspiration in everything.
‐‐ Concha Buika

I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book.
‐‐ Christopher Paolini

I find inspiration in what artists and regular people on the street wear, but I'm also very influenced by what I like to wear since I style myself.
‐‐ Kygo

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.
‐‐ Nicole Appleton

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
‐‐ Mitch Albom

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.
‐‐ David Hasselhoff

I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.
‐‐ James Taylor

I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.
‐‐ Eva Longoria

I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
‐‐ Paul Watson

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
‐‐ Kristen Bell

I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
‐‐ Grace Slick

I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
‐‐ Armando Iannucci

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.
‐‐ Dusty Springfield

I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night.
‐‐ John Fairchild

I find it beautiful when we're in Italy that everybody sits down at the table together. My mother-in-law is like, 'It doesn't matter what's going on in the house, who is fighting, who is upset, who has appointments, you sit down at that table at one o'clock.'
‐‐ Debi Mazar

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.
‐‐ Elizabeth George

I find it completely irrational to say someone who stands up for life for children is taking the life of adult. It's completely inconsistent with the values of the pro-life movement that are very passionate about protecting life, not taking life.
‐‐ James Lankford

I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.
‐‐ Maria Bamford

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
‐‐ Patricia Cornwell

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.
‐‐ Alcee Hastings

I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don't understand that anonymity online is merely a facade; indeed, it's probably one of the reasons that revealing the identity of pseudonymous Redditors is looked on as such a huge betrayal.
‐‐ John Scalzi

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
‐‐ Stuart Chase

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
‐‐ Edvard Munch

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I find it difficult to remember lines. When I'm doing a long speech for television, I sometimes have an earpiece with someone feeding me the text. But I can get by in the theatre if I study hard for a couple of months.
‐‐ Michael Gambon

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.
‐‐ Mechai Viravaidya

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
‐‐ Bianca Jagger

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.
‐‐ Elaine Stritch