All Quotes

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
‐‐ Andrew Young

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
‐‐ Dan Simmons

It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show... I had like five surgeries.
‐‐ Phillip Phillips

It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.
‐‐ Richard D. James

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!
‐‐ Michael Owen Bruce

It started when I moved into a vegetarian co-op back in the '70s, and that's really when I had my food consciousness awakened. I learned how to cook, and eventually I became the food buyer for the entire co-op. Not long after that, I went to work for a small natural food store in Austin, and I became very excited and passionate about it.
‐‐ John Mackey

It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a magical, beautiful sound. I dedicated my entire childhood to cello, practising like crazy.
‐‐ Stjepan Hauser

It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.
‐‐ Jonathan Davis

It starts in the home environment. If the parents eat bad? Those kids are going to eat bad. If they see their parents stopping at McDonald's or Pizza Hut, then that's what they're going to eat as well.
‐‐ Donald Driver

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.
‐‐ Marvin Olasky

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
‐‐ Steve Lacy

It starts with campaign finance reform.
‐‐ Zack Space

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler

It starts with your diet and then to your exercise... you have to make the right decisions as a consumer and learn about carbs and proteins as well as watching your portion control, and from there you have to stay active as much as possible.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.
‐‐ Mark Foley

It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for whom I have the greatest respect, has described performance as a sacred communion between the artist and the composer. But what about the audience? Music is communication, a two-way street.
‐‐ Charles Hazlewood

It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I've been a part of, and some of the people I've gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.
‐‐ Christian Slater

It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
‐‐ Patrick Stewart

It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.
‐‐ Richard Fleeshman

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.
‐‐ River Phoenix

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.
‐‐ Jesse Helms

It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.
‐‐ Merrick Garland

It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

It strikes me as one of nature's greatest jokes that the types of food we all like to eat more than anything (especially in winter) are the very things that cause the most insane weight gain - mounds of fluffy mashed potato, hot, thickly buttered toast, huge, steaming bowls of pasta, great big... actually, I'll stop there.
‐‐ John Niven

It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.
‐‐ Joss Stone

It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.
‐‐ Lena Olin

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.
‐‐ Craig Brown

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.
‐‐ Michael Korda

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.
‐‐ John Ortberg

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.
‐‐ Robbie Fowler

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.
‐‐ Colin Hay

It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.
‐‐ Tom Golisano

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
‐‐ Griffin Dunne

It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.
‐‐ Robert Edwards

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.
‐‐ Nicole Polizzi

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'
‐‐ Jason Dohring

It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being 20 years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up.
‐‐ George Packer

It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.
‐‐ Polly Bergen

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
‐‐ Neil Armstrong

It suits me to be in a series that takes ages to film.
‐‐ Laurence Fox

It sure is hell to be president.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.
‐‐ Hattie McDaniel