All Quotes

I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
‐‐ Joseph Monninger

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.
‐‐ Jordana Brewster

I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!
‐‐ Adam Green

I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.
‐‐ Max Schneider

I once read that in vaudeville, it was often the straight guy who got paid more than the comic because that's the tougher job. He has to set up the jokes in just the right way.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing.
‐‐ John Niven

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
‐‐ Cara Black

I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.
‐‐ Kathie Lee Gifford

I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.
‐‐ FKA twigs

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
‐‐ Ralph Nader

I once said to someone, 'If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.'
‐‐ Teri Polo

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.
‐‐ Todd Barry

I once saved someone from drowning.
‐‐ Simon Van Booy

I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
‐‐ Ralph Steadman

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.
‐‐ Jon McGregor

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
‐‐ Garry Shandling

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
‐‐ Fiona Shaw

I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day. The thought froze me instantly, like literary Botox. I returned to my non-schedule: sleeping, writing 20 minutes, and then back to sleep. Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
‐‐ Dean Martin

I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.
‐‐ David Liss

I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply.
‐‐ Lauren Groff

I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

I once started a small business when I got out of college and enjoyed the stress of making it work. High-stress situations clear my head, and I love the challenge of getting along with many different kinds of people. I'm scared of routine.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.
‐‐ Simon Armitage

I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more.
‐‐ Black Kettle

I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.
‐‐ Breckin Meyer

I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.
‐‐ Jenny Lawson

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.
‐‐ Joaquin Phoenix

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.
‐‐ Akshay Kumar

I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
‐‐ Pat Paulsen

I once took the key off my girlfriend's key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home. So I did this whole romantic setup in our bedroom with flowers and rose petals. She was so mad when she got home, but then when she walked in, she was so surprised.
‐‐ Trey Songz

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada

I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.
‐‐ Clyde Edgerton

I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

I once waited on a group of 10 people, and one guy collected the money from the check and tipped me $20 on $600. I told him in front of everyone, 'Jews like you give Jews like me a bad name.' That was my last waitressing job.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.
‐‐ Tony D'Souza

I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn't been changed since the 19th century.
‐‐ Susanna Kearsley