All Quotes

I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and pastoral, lyricism and hardboiled, men and women, joy and grief. I tried to do quite a lot, but I wanted to create a serious work of literature.
‐‐ Nicola Griffith

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.
‐‐ Pete Rose

I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.
‐‐ John Ortberg

I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
‐‐ Sally Phillips

I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.
‐‐ Jasper Fforde

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.
‐‐ Diane Sawyer

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.
‐‐ James Corden

I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.
‐‐ Anna D. Shapiro

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
‐‐ Tara Strong

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
‐‐ Steve McQueen

I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before.
‐‐ Kylie Minogue

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.
‐‐ Lucille Ball

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.
‐‐ Jenny Shipley

I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.
‐‐ Tom Perrotta

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.
‐‐ Peter Hammill

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
‐‐ Lorrie Moore

I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.
‐‐ Dan Malloy

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.
‐‐ Sandra Lee

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.
‐‐ Lauren Willig

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.
‐‐ Sharon Olds

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.
‐‐ Ivana Milicevic

I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
‐‐ Mal Peet

I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.
‐‐ Jesse James Garrett

I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky

I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.
‐‐ Paul Wolfowitz

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.
‐‐ Loretta Young

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
‐‐ Stewart O'Nan

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.
‐‐ Hendrik Poinar

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.
‐‐ Kate Bush

I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

I'm not sure there's a method to my madness.
‐‐ Selena Gomez

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.
‐‐ Jim Ratcliffe

I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out.
‐‐ Rick Wagoner

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.
‐‐ Jasper Johns

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.
‐‐ Jerry Doyle

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'
‐‐ Nicole Kidman

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
‐‐ David Antin

I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call it spectacular.
‐‐ Jon Scieszka

I'm not sure what you need first - the players believing or others believing in them - but in the end, both have to think it.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
‐‐ Donna Tartt

I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit' button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking - but too polite or afraid to verbalize.
‐‐ Judy Gold

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
‐‐ Mary Cheney

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi