All Quotes

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
‐‐ Joseph Beuys

I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
‐‐ Anais Nin

I witnessed a home birth with my sister Khloe and, after seeing it, I felt it wasn't for me. There was too much risk involved, and it wasn't as sanitary as a hospital.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.
‐‐ Rene Burri

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.
‐‐ Alan Shepard

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.
‐‐ Jessica Lynch

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.
‐‐ Hulk Hogan

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.
‐‐ John Blair

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
‐‐ Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
‐‐ Cameron van der Burgh

I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
‐‐ Paul Auster

I woke up one day and wanted to change my look. And I was like, 'Okay, what are you going to do about it?' I said, 'I'm going lose 30 pounds, I'm going to get a little lipo, and I'm going to get a Monroe piercing, and I'm going to cut my hair. I'm going to get totally wild.'
‐‐ CeCe Peniston

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'
‐‐ Bruce Cockburn

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
‐‐ Dale Earnhardt

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.
‐‐ Jennifer Tilly

I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting.
‐‐ Stacy Keibler

I won a grand slam with an Audemars Piguet on my wrist, so I feel it is a great match.
‐‐ Stanislas Wawrinka

I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season.
‐‐ Hermann Maier

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.
‐‐ Reid Hoffman

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
‐‐ Ronald Biggs

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
‐‐ Loretta Lynn

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
‐‐ Michael Caine

I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.
‐‐ LeBron James

I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.
‐‐ Donna Edwards

'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy - to show that and know it in yourself and be confident - because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning.
‐‐ Nayvadius Cash

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
‐‐ Bob Richards

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.
‐‐ Paul Gascoigne

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.
‐‐ Rodney Brooks

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.
‐‐ Rob Kardashian

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
‐‐ Lou Holtz

I won't allow any party to evade the question of which leader they support for prime minister.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
‐‐ Calvin Klein

I won't apologize for choosing my career over kids.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.
‐‐ Glenn Frey

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
‐‐ Freddie Mercury

I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour.
‐‐ Skylar Laine

I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
‐‐ Val McDermid