All Quotes

I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage.
‐‐ Thierry Mugler

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
‐‐ Jack Steinberger

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
‐‐ Michael Cunningham

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
‐‐ James Lovelock

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.
‐‐ Peter Shumlin

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

I suspect many people have the problem that they type much more slowly than they think. Consequently, they keep resynchronizing their thought processes with what they have typed so far, and they match a later part of the thought with an earlier part that they have typed.
‐‐ Ray Tomlinson

I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.
‐‐ Steven Johnson

I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
‐‐ Ziyi Zhang

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.
‐‐ Charles Stross

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

I suspect that a huge amount of the anxiety and suffering that we see around can be closely traced to our wanton misuse of our resources. Just look at any garbage dump and see what is wasted. In a sense, we've wasted our souls.
‐‐ Jay Parini

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.
‐‐ Chris Cooper

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
‐‐ Keith Henson

I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two - are more common than authors who begin by writing for young adults and who then gravitate toward composing something for an adult audience.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.
‐‐ Frank Knox

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
‐‐ Adam Hamilton

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.
‐‐ David Rockefeller

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami in their lifetimes. I think it is on the same level as seeing the pyramids in Giza for many people. But, Miami is slippery: It is a place that is always that distant orgiastic green light while also being a hot, tropical, and very real place.
‐‐ Jim Drain

I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

I suspect that most retailers are so busy buying goods, taking care of markdowns, and so on that they have too little time to give thought to creativity.
‐‐ Stanley Marcus

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
‐‐ Derek Bok

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
‐‐ Zygmunt Bauman

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.
‐‐ Jay Parini

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.
‐‐ Joe Haldeman

I suspect that we get used to particular sorts of stories being presented in particular sorts of ways, and we're so used to interpreting them and understanding what it is they're doing that we think of those forms and styles as faithful, complete depictions of reality.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.
‐‐ Branford Marsalis

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.
‐‐ Trey Gowdy

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.
‐‐ Fred Saberhagen

I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.
‐‐ Cecilia Dart-Thornton

I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
‐‐ Nick Cave

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.
‐‐ Kamisese Mara

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.
‐‐ Hugh Mackay

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.
‐‐ Bob Woodward

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
‐‐ Simone Signoret

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
‐‐ Evan Williams