All Quotes

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
‐‐ Nathalie Sarraute

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.
‐‐ Anton Seidl

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
‐‐ Giacomo Casanova

I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
‐‐ Graham Greene

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
‐‐ Don Marquis

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
‐‐ J. C. Watts

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
‐‐ Yves Saint Laurent

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
‐‐ Ian Hamilton Finlay

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
‐‐ Amelia Earhart

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
‐‐ Bette Davis

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.
‐‐ Charles Bronfman

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
‐‐ Daniel Defoe

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
‐‐ Nicholas D. Kristof

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
‐‐ Edith Sitwell

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a modest thirty-four.
‐‐ Evelyn Keyes

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.
‐‐ Nicole Richie

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.
‐‐ Audrina Patridge

I have olive trees and have tried my hand at curing small batches of olives, with varying degrees of success. So sometimes there are leftover olives I use in pasta sauce because they didn't quite make the grade.
‐‐ Kyle MacLachlan

I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.
‐‐ Jason Henderson

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.
‐‐ Mark Skousen

I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
‐‐ Gary Numan

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
‐‐ Daniel Bruhl

I have one chocolate Lab named Jasmine. I also had a rat named Sky.
‐‐ Jason Dolley

I have one client: Donald Trump.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

I have one coach and one coach only. His name is Alexander Vetrov. They brought him in for me when I joined the Bolshoi. He was a dancer with the Bolshoi, and we work very intensely together.
‐‐ David Hallberg

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.
‐‐ Jerry Garcia

I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
‐‐ Dan Webster

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
‐‐ Salma Hayek

I have one goal every single year, and that's to play every single game.
‐‐ Freddie Freeman

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.
‐‐ Krzysztof Kieslowski

I have one good girlfriend and then most of my friends are guys. Which I love, because they're just like so easygoing and I love to play like Xbox and just chill out when I'm not working, so boys are probably the way to go for me.
‐‐ Ashley Benson