All Quotes

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
‐‐ Billy West

It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.
‐‐ Gioconda Belli

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin

It had never occurred to me that my colour - or lack of it - was an issue for some people, but then I moved to Sydney, and apparently it was. People look at me and don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. Thankfully, my mother raised me well in knowing where I come from and who I am, and I'm proud of that.
‐‐ Shari Sebbens

It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' and wanted to know more about her - who she was, how she and Ernest met and fell in love, what it was like for her to be married to such a demanding and stormy force of nature.
‐‐ Paula McLain

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.
‐‐ Erik Qualman

It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.
‐‐ John Sexton

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.
‐‐ Robert Scheer

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!
‐‐ Rachel Tucker

It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.
‐‐ David Weber

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.
‐‐ Jon Secada

It happened to me on 'King of the Hill,' where I'd left it before the end and didn't really participate in the ending, and I always felt a little bit like I wanted to try a different version of that story.
‐‐ Greg Daniels

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
‐‐ Ed Koch

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
‐‐ Bobby Darin

It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.
‐‐ Dominic Cooper

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
‐‐ Mark Strand

It has a Nazi echo, doesn't it? The Jews had to wear that Star of David, and Donald Trump is saying all Syrians have to carry an ID card and they can, without warrant, go into any Syrian's home or a mosque.
‐‐ George Takei

It has a really timeless feel.
‐‐ David Campbell

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.
‐‐ Josiah Warren

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
‐‐ Arthur Laffer

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
‐‐ Arthur Helps

It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
‐‐ Laila Robins

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.
‐‐ Robert Dale Owen

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
‐‐ Diana Ross

It has always been clear that The Washington Post is a company that is set up for the purpose of protecting the long-term interests of its assets and held together as a holding company.
‐‐ Jonathan Grayer

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
‐‐ Jim Henson

It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.
‐‐ Donna McKechnie

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.
‐‐ David Novak

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.
‐‐ John Niven

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.
‐‐ Jim DeMint

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
‐‐ Edward Gibbon

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.
‐‐ Harry Mathews

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
‐‐ John Boyle O'Reilly

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend.
‐‐ Richard J. Codey

It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any more. It's one of the world's fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English.
‐‐ Aravind Adiga

It has always been very important to look carefully at young people and the way they wear clothes.
‐‐ Brunello Cucinelli

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!
‐‐ Agnetha Faltskog

It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
‐‐ Kate Forsyth

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.
‐‐ Robert Smith

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
‐‐ James Loeb

It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.
‐‐ Frederick William Faber

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.
‐‐ John Berger