All Quotes

In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.
‐‐ Oliver North

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.
‐‐ Emily Mortimer

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
‐‐ John Turturro

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
‐‐ David Morse

In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10.
‐‐ Eliza Dushku

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
‐‐ Harold Larwood

In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.
‐‐ Eric Ries

In my first story, 'Mr. Mysterious & Company'... I was asked to take out some of the humor because editors were afraid reviewers would dismiss the book as a joke. Today, humor is enjoyed and no longer regarded as literary brummagem.
‐‐ Sid Fleischman

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
‐‐ Al Franken

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.
‐‐ Roy Barnes

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'
‐‐ Alan Cumming

In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'
‐‐ Katharine Graham

In my formative years, I never missed the 'Creature Double Feature' on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between 'Gamera' and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King's 'Night Shift' in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen.
‐‐ Chuck Hogan

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
‐‐ Patricia Cornwell

In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.
‐‐ Kristin Gore

In my free time, I love to lay in bed.
‐‐ Elizabeth Reaser

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.
‐‐ Donnie Wahlberg

In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive; you think of all the work you've done, and it breaks your heart, but you learn to shrug it off and to carry on.
‐‐ Phil Daniels

In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.
‐‐ Juliet Rylance

In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
‐‐ Barbara Mandrell

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.
‐‐ Fritz Sauckel

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
‐‐ Julia Child

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
‐‐ Barry Unsworth

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.
‐‐ Sherwood Smith

In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
‐‐ Ashton Holmes

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
‐‐ Tammy Baldwin

In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.
‐‐ Marion Marechal-Le Pen

In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels.
‐‐ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn't want to show their legs.
‐‐ Danny McBride

In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport.
‐‐ Lisa Snowdon

'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
‐‐ Natalie MacMaster

In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding.
‐‐ Julia Glass

In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was.
‐‐ Imelda May

In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!
‐‐ Miranda Hart

In my head I'm a rapper, but I'm not!
‐‐ Jenji Kohan

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.
‐‐ Matthew Rhys

In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.
‐‐ Chris Wooding

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.
‐‐ Portia Doubleday

In my heart, I am always a Raider.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
‐‐ Vijay Singh

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.
‐‐ Joe Biden

In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.
‐‐ Denise Mina

In my heart, I'm so far from done.
‐‐ Kerri Walsh Jennings

In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan