All Quotes

In 'The Sound of Music,' I was a von Trapp daughter in a white dress with a blue satin sash, and my line was, 'I'm Brigitta. I'm 12, and all I want is a good time.' I got a laugh. And I was so delighted, I laughed, too. Sadly, that's a problem I still have - onstage, I laugh hysterically at how funny I am.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.
‐‐ Mario Testino

In the South, I think, food mirrors our lives. When I was growing up, no matter what you were grieving or celebrating, my mama would be at the door with a cake or a pie.
‐‐ Kimberly Schlapman

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.
‐‐ Ajay Devgan

In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.
‐‐ Peter Mayle

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
‐‐ Ben Shahn

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.
‐‐ Frank Thomas

In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.' We didn't talk white. We talked fairly proper. Plus, we had a Midwestern accent, so we didn't have a Southern accent, either. So it wasn't really talking white; it was talking different.
‐‐ Stuart Scott

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
‐‐ Tate Taylor

In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.
‐‐ Anna Camp

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.
‐‐ David F. Houston

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
‐‐ Joseph Stalin

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
‐‐ Vagit Alekperov

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
‐‐ Tom Clancy

In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on the bottom, as it slowly erodes away from the heat and pieces of it fly off like sparks across your window, and it's an interesting thing to ride through, you know.
‐‐ Chris Hadfield

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.
‐‐ Peter Mandelson

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.
‐‐ Najib Razak

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.
‐‐ Esther Dyson

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
‐‐ Luther Burbank

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.
‐‐ Tim Murphy

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
‐‐ Paul Eldridge

In the spirit of commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, we will strive to achieve real progress in disarmament and arms control.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
‐‐ Adam Savage

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.
‐‐ Duke Snider

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
‐‐ Venus Williams

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.
‐‐ Li Peng

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

In the spring of 1854, some of my publications persuaded King Maximilian II of Bavaria to offer me, at the suggestion of Emanuel Geibel, a position in Munich with an annual salary of 1000 guilders, to take part in his so-called symposia, weekly soirees at which scholars and poets were gathered.
‐‐ Paul Heyse

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.
‐‐ Jane Leavy

In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.
‐‐ Elias James Corey

In the spring of 1968, The Beatles and I were invited by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to travel to Riskikesh, India. Riskikesh has been an important spiritual place to many millions of people over the years. It is situated where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas, and to be in that atmosphere was something incredibly special.
‐‐ Mike Love

In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.
‐‐ Brian Shactman

In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.
‐‐ George J. Mitchell

In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates - with North Korean help. This reactor was a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.
‐‐ Daniel Boulud

In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.
‐‐ Paul Graham

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.
‐‐ Mo Brooks

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.
‐‐ Justin Amash

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
‐‐ Thomas Hobbes