All Quotes

I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
‐‐ Harold Pinter

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!
‐‐ Nick Vujicic

I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.
‐‐ Lisa Kudrow

I found the source of global warming is coming from the hot air coming out of Washington.
‐‐ Matt Salmon

I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work.
‐‐ Judy Greer

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
‐‐ Amy Waldman

I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.
‐‐ Phil Hartman

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.
‐‐ Zola Budd

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.
‐‐ Dave Matthews

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield

I found this deer toy that poops out candy. And so if I say, 'Cree, you have to go to bed right now. You will get a candy.' We've named the pooping deer 'Gus.'... He gets a jelly bean. And it works. Positive reinforcement is the way to go. I'm learning things like that which help me be a better parent.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
‐‐ Barack Obama

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.
‐‐ Donna Mills

I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.
‐‐ Stephen Chbosky

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.
‐‐ Elvis Costello

I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you're planning strategies; you're working with your own hands. There's essential satisfaction in running experiments.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
‐‐ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers.
‐‐ Mariam Naficy

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.
‐‐ Reed Hastings

I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.
‐‐ Leila Janah

I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
‐‐ T. Boone Pickens

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
‐‐ Alan Keyes

I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.
‐‐ Patty Hearst

I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.
‐‐ Tim Blake Nelson

I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. No question about that. But when something like Dodd-Frank has been created, sort of in the mystery of night, it is a huge document. It's vast. It weighs about 10 pounds when I carry it around.
‐‐ Charles Schwab

I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.
‐‐ Nick Carter

I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
‐‐ Landon Liboiron

I freaking love Gwyneth Paltrow - I think she's awesome. She is fantastic.
‐‐ Chord Overstreet

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.
‐‐ Charles Hazlewood

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
‐‐ Unknown

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.
‐‐ Charlaine Harris

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

I freely admit that I took great license in writing 'The Dark Queen,' more so than my other historical romance novels. This is largely because I viewed the book as a fantasy novel as much as an historical. I do feel that writers should strive for as much accuracy as possible but, in the end, remember that we are writing fiction.
‐‐ Susan Carroll

I freestyle, but I'd rather sit down and write down my music to map out what I'm doing. But if I'm out with my friends, I will freestyle, you know?
‐‐ Raven Goodwin

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough

I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
‐‐ Jeffrey Tate

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
‐‐ Damian Woetzel

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.
‐‐ Jane Jensen