All Quotes

I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the mountains. They speak English to foreigners, but what people say to each other is much more important than what they say to you.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work in Phnom Penh, and thus left with her driver and translator early each morning and returned later each night, while I took care of our firstborn son, who was 2 at the time.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.
‐‐ Matthew Rhys

I first wrote about Michael Jackson in the 1980s. His skin was growing paler, his features thinner, and his aura more feminine. Some called him a traitor to his race. Some fussed about his gender fluidity. I saw him as a post-modern shape-shifter. But the shifts grew more extreme and mysterious.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.
‐‐ Debra Wilson

I fix my grandchildren's computers.
‐‐ Alan Alda

I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.
‐‐ Kirk Hammett

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.
‐‐ Dennis Ritchie

I flee from symbols. I think those who don't want to solve problems go to the symbols. I'm looking for content.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
‐‐ George McGovern

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.
‐‐ Scilla Elworthy

I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale.
‐‐ Sara Gilbert

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.
‐‐ Alan G. Poindexter

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.
‐‐ Bharati Mukherjee

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.
‐‐ John Goodman

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.
‐‐ Al Gore

I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.
‐‐ Elle King

I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do.
‐‐ Brian Skerry

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.
‐‐ Ciaran Hinds

I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
‐‐ Irwin Rose

I flood the Internet with what I think is quality content. That's why I did things like giving out a song every 100,000 Twitter followers because I am just looking for ways to get my fans to hear all this music without over saturating things.
‐‐ Mac Miller

I flow between modern and traditional jazz, between samba and choro - all maybe in a week's time.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
‐‐ Jack Ma

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.
‐‐ Stephen J. Cannell

I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy.
‐‐ Pauly Shore

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
‐‐ Gene Simmons

I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
‐‐ LeVar Burton

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.
‐‐ Arnold Palmer

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.
‐‐ Theophilus London

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

I focus on a lot of women's issues.
‐‐ Lauren Greenfield

I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it's a working prototype; sometimes it's an idea on a napkin. I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.
‐‐ Kevin Rose

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.
‐‐ Ashley Greene

I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.
‐‐ Kobe Bryant

I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.
‐‐ Imran Amed

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.
‐‐ John Templeton

I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
‐‐ J. B. Pritzker

I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
‐‐ Maggie Stiefvater

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
‐‐ Sue Grafton

I focused on how these people became how they were.
‐‐ Luther Allison

I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!
‐‐ Anat Cohen

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.
‐‐ Gretchen Mol