All Quotes

I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.
‐‐ Bob Saget

I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.
‐‐ Narciso Rodriguez

I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.
‐‐ Donald Trump

I've met some incredible people who I really admire.
‐‐ Taron Egerton

I've met some of my best friends in the world working for Victoria's Secret.
‐‐ Erin Heatherton

I've met some of the most beautiful women in the world, and I can tell you lots of them are the most unattractive people I've ever met.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

I've met some smart people doing security work in the government, and they're starting to reach out to a broader audience, which I think is a good thing.
‐‐ Jeff Moss

I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I'll do that.' She's all about courtesy.
‐‐ Jools Holland

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.
‐‐ Jean Shepherd

I've met Tony Danza. He was really nice. And he looks... I feel like he hasn't aged. He looks exactly the same. He's just Tony Danza. He's exactly the same as he's always been.
‐‐ Fred Armisen

I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings like that. It was only in the Philippines when I was about 15 that I started reading books by very contemporary writers of the Beatnik generation.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.
‐‐ James Rollins

I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.
‐‐ Lapo Elkann

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.
‐‐ Nastia Liukin

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.
‐‐ Chesley Sullenberger

I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.
‐‐ Kaya Scodelario

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
‐‐ Michael Jordan

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
‐‐ Ian Thorpe

I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.
‐‐ Jim O'Heir

I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres

I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
‐‐ Abigail Washburn

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
‐‐ David Morrissey

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.
‐‐ Hilarie Burton

I've never abandoned the novel.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.
‐‐ Margaret Mahy

I've never actually been to prom.
‐‐ Austin Butler

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
‐‐ Harmony Korine

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.
‐‐ Rob Machado

I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'
‐‐ Jeffrey Thomas

I've never actually seen a Star Trek, but I have seen an Alien movie.
‐‐ Izabella Scorupco

I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
‐‐ Landon Donovan

I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?
‐‐ Danica Patrick

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.
‐‐ Sade Adu

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.
‐‐ John Bolton

I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
‐‐ Olympia Snowe

I've never been a 16-year-old girl.
‐‐ Chris Lilley

I've never been a bad boy.
‐‐ John Mayer

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.
‐‐ Boy George

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.
‐‐ Adrian McKinty

I've never been a big believer in formal education.
‐‐ Megan Fox

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.
‐‐ Christian Marclay

I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.
‐‐ Blake Lively

I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
‐‐ Jello Biafra

I've never been a big gore guy.
‐‐ Jon Bernthal

I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
‐‐ Jackie Earle Haley

I've never been a big nightlife person. I have a pretty low-key life.
‐‐ Murray Bartlett

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.
‐‐ Jerry Cantrell