All Quotes

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
‐‐ Sarah Fielding

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
‐‐ Henry Mayhew

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I was shown off as a freak. My father encouraged me to be wordier than I was: he'd been a street orator at the time of Mosley, and his ideal primary concert speech was Henry V's speech before Harfleur.
‐‐ Simon Schama

I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
‐‐ Susan Rice

I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic.
‐‐ Ricky Jay

I was considered an ugly duckling.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.
‐‐ Alexis Korner

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
‐‐ Ron White

I was considered one of RCA's brightest young people. Then one day, I found out we'd been sold. They didn't even consult me.
‐‐ Michael Heisley

I was considered the luckiest of all the female gypsies since I landed the job as social secretary to Ambassador and Mrs. David Bruce at the American Embassy.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

I was considering running for political office.
‐‐ Michael Newdow

I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.
‐‐ Sarah Paulson

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.
‐‐ Spencer Dryden

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.
‐‐ Mike Posner

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.
‐‐ Alan Ball

I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.
‐‐ James McGreevey

I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
‐‐ Patrick Wilson

I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.
‐‐ Rutger Hauer

I was convinced that eventually I would die of heart disease, that we'd run out of time and out of treatment, the technology wouldn't keep ahead of my disease. And now all of the sudden, when you get the new heart, your life opens up before you again.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.
‐‐ James Callis

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

I was convinced that the trading frequency measured a fundamental heartbeat of financial markets. Clearly it reflected the flow of information. It turns out also to be closely related to measures of liquidity.
‐‐ Robert F. Engle

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.
‐‐ Peter Bichsel

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
‐‐ Joseph Barbera

I was convinced you were not able to tell a consumer you can have a healthy fried chip or a good-tasting baked chip.
‐‐ Keith Belling

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.
‐‐ Mike Wallace

I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To me, that's the reason I'm in the Hall of Fame. If I didn't umpire with conviction, I wouldn't have made it for long.
‐‐ Doug Harvey

I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.
‐‐ Jim Webb

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
‐‐ Brendan Behan

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.
‐‐ Anthony Lewis

I was crazy about Elle Macpherson. She modeled, acted and did everything. She was a huge example for me.
‐‐ Constance Jablonski

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.
‐‐ Alexandra Patsavas

I was crazy into performing when I was younger. I was obsessed with the craft of acting, and theatre, and stage. You know the term 'theatre geek?' I am the extreme theatre geek.
‐‐ Vincent Rodriguez III

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
‐‐ Daniel Goldstein

I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was a repeat of the old scripts. The 'Gilligan' musical is a completely original work with all seven characters and 18 original songs.
‐‐ Sherwood Schwartz

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.
‐‐ Norman Lamm

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
‐‐ Felix Baumgartner

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.
‐‐ Art Bell

I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.
‐‐ Caroline Shaw

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
‐‐ Paula Cole

I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe I said I wanted to be a fishery manager. In hindsight, I think acting could be a better route.
‐‐ Tom Felton

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
‐‐ Joseph Haydn

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
‐‐ Spalding Gray