All Quotes

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.
‐‐ Josh Mandel

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
‐‐ Ron Kovic

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

I set a Google Alert for myself, and now I'm seeing people say my music influenced them and how great it is all the time. Sometimes I listen to this stuff that's supposed to be influenced by me, and I can't hear myself in it. But I'd rather they say it than not.
‐‐ Giorgio Moroder

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.
‐‐ Leni Riefenstahl

I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.
‐‐ Claudia Schiffer

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
‐‐ Judy Chicago

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
‐‐ Arthur Hailey

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.
‐‐ Rio Ferdinand

I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
‐‐ Ed Balls

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.
‐‐ Paula Radcliffe

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
‐‐ John Entwistle

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!
‐‐ Flavor Flav

I set out in the beginning to be the heavyweight champion of the world. From a very young age, I was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world. Nothing else was a problem to me. That's what I'll finish doing.
‐‐ Tyson Fury

I set out to be the best umpire of my time. But I don't know what it takes to be great.
‐‐ Doug Harvey

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
‐‐ Gustavo Dudamel

I set out to create chips that used low-energy technology, and that has allowed me to develop devices that can do all their data crunching on site.
‐‐ Chris Toumazou

I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a cult movie, more of a black comedy with some horror elements in it. It kind of went over the top.
‐‐ Neil Marshall

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.
‐‐ Graeme Simsion

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler

I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.
‐‐ Jim Valvano

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.
‐‐ Bob Uecker

I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!
‐‐ Idina Menzel

I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.
‐‐ Bill Hader

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.
‐‐ Sydney Brenner

I set up playdates, and I'm a morning greeter for the car-pool line. I also make albums with the family photos. When the kids get older and go on their way, we'll have all those pictures to revel in.
‐‐ David Gregory

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
‐‐ Brian Eno

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.
‐‐ Jim Evans

I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.
‐‐ David Wroblewski

I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.
‐‐ David Hallberg

I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.
‐‐ Donald Trump

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
‐‐ Booker T. Washington

I shall always be a priest of love.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.
‐‐ Samuel R. Delany

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
‐‐ Tiberius

I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.
‐‐ Doris Kearns Goodwin

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.
‐‐ Joyce Banda

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
‐‐ Kate Smith

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
‐‐ Andrew Carnegie

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
‐‐ Learned Hand

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.
‐‐ Sessue Hayakawa

I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.
‐‐ Sai Baba

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
‐‐ Catherine the Great

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
‐‐ Thomas Gray

I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
‐‐ Helen Hunt Jackson