All Quotes

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.
‐‐ Ruth J. Simmons

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
‐‐ Faye Dunaway

I often say to entrepreneurs, 'If Lehman Brothers were Lehman Brothers & Sisters, it wouldn't have gone into bankruptcy.'
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
‐‐ Brian Eno

I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven in a number of years.
‐‐ Jake Barton

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
‐‐ Grace Paley

I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
‐‐ Kurt Andersen

I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.
‐‐ Allan Dwan

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.
‐‐ Richard Harris

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
‐‐ James Broughton

I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then replicates them and makes a more robust version in different colors, with a pocket for my mic pack.
‐‐ Marina and the Diamonds

I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.
‐‐ Chris O'Dowd

I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it's a bit haunting because you're not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being 'de-personalised.'
‐‐ Ben Barnes

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'
‐‐ Jo Brand

I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.
‐‐ Benjamin Todd Jealous

I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.
‐‐ Thomas Mallon

I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.
‐‐ Stephen Moyer

I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life for His children. In His own words he told his disciples that His meat was to do the will of the Father.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'
‐‐ Giancarlo Esposito

I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?
‐‐ George Saunders

I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.
‐‐ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
‐‐ David Foster Wallace

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.
‐‐ Natasha Lyonne

I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.
‐‐ Jesse Schell

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
‐‐ Andrew Lloyd Webber

I often think of setting as an important character in my story. 'Dark Powers' takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore community rich with watermen and historic atmosphere. I modeled it after a stunning little town called St. Michaels, but since a lot of bad things happen in Doncaster, I changed the name.
‐‐ Ruth Glick

I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?
‐‐ Susan Glaspell

I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
‐‐ Antonya Nelson

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
‐‐ Bette Davis

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
‐‐ Laurence Olivier

I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks.
‐‐ Jay Parini

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
‐‐ Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.
‐‐ Annie Besant

I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.
‐‐ Lynn Johnston

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Geoffrey Rush

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.
‐‐ Ronnie Milsap

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
‐‐ Bianca Jagger

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.
‐‐ Bob Mayer