All Quotes

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
‐‐ Stephen Colbert

I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based 'Snow White,' with this kind of Huntsman character as kind of a way in. So, that's something I'm sort of proud of.
‐‐ Evan Daugherty

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
‐‐ June Jordan

I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.
‐‐ Jojo Moyes

I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.
‐‐ Don Everly

I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
‐‐ Barbara Hambly

I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.
‐‐ Clara Mamet

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
‐‐ Jonathan Franzen

I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.
‐‐ Linton Kwesi Johnson

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.
‐‐ Gloria Naylor

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.
‐‐ Becky G

I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote 'RPM' for Stanley Kramer. Plus, I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin, and I dated June Wilkinson!
‐‐ Erich Segal

I wrote 'Young Guns' on spec because I really believed that the young age of these guys historically, the whole legend of Billy dying at 21, would attract a young staple of stars, and that would be the game-changer.
‐‐ John Fusco

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
‐‐ Katharine Whitehorn

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

I - you know, I'm not an actor.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov

I you look at the drawings of aliens made by people who believe that Earth is under saucer attack, you'll quickly note that most of these invaders fit the Tinseltown mold. But you have to admit: the grays are highly anthropomorphic.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
‐‐ Vernor Vinge

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.
‐‐ Dave Van Ronk

Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!
‐‐ Christopher Lee

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
‐‐ Brendan Fraser

Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

Ian Smith thought his Rhodesia would last 1,000 years: it lasted less than 15.
‐‐ Petina Gappah

Iberico de Bellota is best when cooked medium rare with a nice, pink center to allow the delicious acorn-infused flavor to come through.
‐‐ Jose Andres

Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
‐‐ Xavi

Ibiza is very close to my heart.
‐‐ Jade Jagger

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
‐‐ Arthur Rock

IBM has a very solid business image.
‐‐ Helmut Jahn

IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.
‐‐ Jose Andres

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.
‐‐ John Patrick

IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
‐‐ Samuel J. Palmisano

IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
‐‐ Ginni Rometty

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
‐‐ Douglas Trumbull

Ibotta represents the future of how mobile technology will be used to drive both in-store and online sales. Not only does Ibotta allow retailers to drive sales directly in store, but it also allows them to see what type of media engagement has the largest effect on resulting customer purchases.
‐‐ James H. Clark

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.
‐‐ Liv Ullmann

'iCarly' was one of my first major jobs, actually. I went into that audition and completely failed at it. I completely bombed... I forgot my lines. When I forget my lines, I kind of get angry. They had me do it again; I remembered them, and I booked it.
‐‐ Matthew Moy

'Ice Age 4' came totally out of nowhere for me. I was told Fox Animation was interested in hiring me as a story supervisor or something or other that sounded way too professional for me.
‐‐ Jason Fuchs

'Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office.
‐‐ Jason Fuchs

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

Ice and I just live our own lives. I have to answer to him, and he has to answer to me, and that's it. We don't care about the outside world, and even though it can be harsh out there, we just have to deal with it.
‐‐ Coco Austin

'Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?'
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

Ice cream brings people together.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
‐‐ Voltaire