All Quotes

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.
‐‐ Diane Keaton

I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.
‐‐ Pierre Boulez

I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
‐‐ Olly Murs

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.
‐‐ Luc Besson

I said in a speech out in Peoria that with Jerry in as vice president, the pressures on Nixon to resign would be unbearable. I know that Republicans see 50 House seats flying out the window in 1974.
‐‐ Thomas P. O'Neill

I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

I said in my mind, 'keep fighting.'
‐‐ Kim Clijsters

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.
‐‐ Dennis Kucinich

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.
‐‐ Ken Starr

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
‐‐ Maggie Smith

I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?
‐‐ David Chase

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.
‐‐ David Blunkett

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.
‐‐ Paul Robeson

I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.
‐‐ Andrew Lloyd Webber

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.
‐‐ Jake Lloyd

I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
‐‐ Bear Grylls

I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.
‐‐ Marc Jacobs

I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
‐‐ Cam Newton

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
‐‐ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.
‐‐ Michael Rosenbaum

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
‐‐ Gregg Allman

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like.
‐‐ Pat Bowlen

I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
‐‐ Barack Obama

I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.
‐‐ David Maraniss

I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.'
‐‐ John Bercow

I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.
‐‐ Bernard Goldberg

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
‐‐ R. Kelly

I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'
‐‐ Colm Toibin

I said the export benefit should go to all the farmers in the country through the mills spread across the country, in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Now what happens? This benefit goes to those mills or export houses in Mumbai. Or in Chennai or in Bangalore.
‐‐ K. V. Thomas

I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
‐‐ Elliot Richardson

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.
‐‐ Mordechai Vanunu

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.
‐‐ Philip Roth

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
‐‐ Ed Koch

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'
‐‐ Harriet Tubman

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.
‐‐ Tommy Kirk

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'
‐‐ Billie Whitelaw

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
‐‐ Virgil Thomson

I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'
‐‐ Mario Testino

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

I said to my team, 'I'm doing 'Gilmore Girls' no matter what. There's no way I'll miss it,' because I owed it to the story. The story is bigger than the sum of its parts.
‐‐ Tanc Sade