All Quotes

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.
‐‐ Ed Koch

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
‐‐ Gavin Hood

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.
‐‐ Hussein Chalayan

I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.
‐‐ Nayvadius Cash

I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
‐‐ Harold Feinstein

I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.
‐‐ Adam Clayton

I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.
‐‐ Lennie James

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.
‐‐ Freddy Fender

I was dreaming of Craig Carton.
‐‐ Boomer Esiason

I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
‐‐ Randy Schekman

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.
‐‐ Timothy Bottoms

I was driven when I was younger. Driven at West Point where it was much more competitive in that women were competing with men on many levels, and I was driven in the military and at Harvard, both competitive environments.
‐‐ Paula Broadwell

I was driving around the country when I was 19 and happened to run out of cash in Seattle, so I settled here.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back together with her ex. It broke my heart.
‐‐ Chris Evans

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
‐‐ Shelley Fabares

I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.
‐‐ Don McCullin

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.
‐‐ Robert Benton

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
‐‐ Richard Branson

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
‐‐ David Bailey

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.
‐‐ James Van Der Beek

I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I'll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know?
‐‐ Tim Conway

I was eager to see what Swedish design had to offer and get a sense of its fashion culture, and Altewai Saome was the perfect introduction.
‐‐ Aslaug Magnusdottir

I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
‐‐ Avril Lavigne

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.
‐‐ Eric Andre

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
‐‐ Paul Simon

I was eating lots of vegetables and fruit every day during my pregnancy - my baby needed the best of the best, so it was the opposite of overeating. I had this being inside of me, and I was responsible for everything he got.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.
‐‐ George Woodcock

I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.
‐‐ Ronit Roy

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
‐‐ Jeffery Deaver

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.
‐‐ Martin Ryle

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.
‐‐ Antony Hewish

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.
‐‐ Eike Batista

I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.
‐‐ Lauren Bush

I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
‐‐ Zana Marjanovic

I was eight when independence happened. I remember my mum and dad getting dressed up to go to the independence concert to go listen to Bob Marley. Independence was such a wonderful time; we had so many expectations of the kind of country we would become. The vision of the government then was a wonderful vision.
‐‐ Petina Gappah

I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.
‐‐ Graeme Base

I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck

I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.
‐‐ Cynthia Voigt

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.
‐‐ Meredith Brooks

I was either told or I realised on my own terms that if you're going to be star-struck with the people you're working with, you're not going to work very well.
‐‐ James Frecheville

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
‐‐ Neil Armstrong

I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd

I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
‐‐ Ted Deutch