All Quotes

I learned to cook because I want to know about the food and the ingredients going into my family's bodies.
‐‐ Kendra Wilkinson

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.
‐‐ Steve Albini

I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.
‐‐ Alan King

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.
‐‐ Edward James Olmos

I learned to dive in Belize, which is sort of like learning to drive in an Aston Martin. The reefs and refuges are some of the most dramatic in the world. But the real reason I went was to dive the Blue Hole, a 400 ft. sinkhole near Ambergris Caye. Google it, and you'll see why.
‐‐ Marcus Sakey

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.
‐‐ Chris Squire

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.
‐‐ Norman Rockwell

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.
‐‐ Sharon Draper

I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.
‐‐ Michel Gondry

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.
‐‐ Beth Orton

I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
‐‐ Douglass North

I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.
‐‐ Jenna Ushkowitz

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

I learned to focus on what's real rather than imagined; on not letting feelings drive the bus; on being courageous and honest; on putting my total effort into something and not worrying about the result.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
‐‐ Amy Tan

I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
‐‐ Gary Jennings

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.
‐‐ Ann Hood

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I learned to love dance for its own sake.
‐‐ Suzanne Farrell

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.
‐‐ Gabourey Sidibe

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
‐‐ Maxine Hong Kingston

I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.
‐‐ Jools Holland

I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.
‐‐ Sergio Aguero

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
‐‐ Gregory Harrison

I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.
‐‐ Benmont Tench

I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.
‐‐ Kristi Yamaguchi

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
‐‐ Dakota Fanning

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That's the version of capitalism that we want.
‐‐ Guy Spier

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.
‐‐ Sam Riley

I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.
‐‐ Andrew Hudgins

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
‐‐ Charley Pride

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
‐‐ Tahar Rahim

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
‐‐ Jonathan Lethem

I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.
‐‐ Johnny Weissmuller

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
‐‐ Anton Seidl