All Quotes

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
‐‐ Keanu Reeves

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
‐‐ George Osborne

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.
‐‐ Greta Scacchi

I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.
‐‐ Stephenie Meyer

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.
‐‐ David D. Burns

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
‐‐ Jean-Luc Godard

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
‐‐ Mark Shriver

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
‐‐ Kevin Eubanks

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
‐‐ Alan Kay

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
‐‐ George Kennedy

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
‐‐ Birch Bayh

I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
‐‐ Iris Apfel

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.
‐‐ Dambisa Moyo

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
‐‐ Leonard Maltin

I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don't forget Clarence Carter!
‐‐ Percy Sledge

I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the best music I've ever been around.
‐‐ Tony Bennett

I had the greatest time of my life making 'Saw 3.' More fun than '2' for sure.
‐‐ Shawnee Smith

I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!
‐‐ Clay Aiken

I had the greatest year of my career in 2007. It's a year that I'm very proud of.
‐‐ Alex Rodriguez

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
‐‐ Alan Parsons

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.
‐‐ Dick Gephardt

I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.
‐‐ Horace Silver

I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
‐‐ Dane Cook

I had the idea for TaskRabbit one night when my husband and I were getting ready for dinner.
‐‐ Leah Busque

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.
‐‐ Genevieve Gorder

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
‐‐ Ted Lindsay

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.
‐‐ David Chalmers

I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.
‐‐ Steve Daines

I had the luck of having an obedient body.
‐‐ Burt Lancaster

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
‐‐ Michelle Hunziker

I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
‐‐ Rachael Ray

I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter's graduation. So many people don't have the luxury of taking an hour away from the workplace to attend indispensable family commitments. We have to change that dynamic.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.
‐‐ Emile Hirsch

I had the most expensive haircut you can get, and I was walking around with my hair in rollers backstage, and my hair still came out looking like I was shot out of a cannon and I had just gotten out of bed.
‐‐ Kelly Cutrone

I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'
‐‐ Rose Leslie

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.
‐‐ Sophia Bush

I had the most incredible time on 'Dancing With the Stars.' It never occurred to me when I took it on that I would physically not be able to do it because that's not in an Olympic competitor's vocabulary! It was the most wonderful environment, such a nurturing environment.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'
‐‐ David Guetta

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
‐‐ Tom T. Hall