All Quotes

It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.
‐‐ Joseph O'Neill

It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.
‐‐ Annette Bening

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
‐‐ Nicholas A. Christakis

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.
‐‐ Ben Shahn

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.
‐‐ Stephen Dorff

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.
‐‐ Gary Ackerman

It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

It used to be you wanted to marry up.
‐‐ Victoria Principal

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.
‐‐ Lily Collins

It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
‐‐ Rachel Platten

It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
‐‐ Boman Irani

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.
‐‐ Heather Brooke

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.
‐‐ Lisa See

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
‐‐ Gautam Gambhir

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.
‐‐ Rohit Shetty

It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.
‐‐ Dav Pilkey

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
‐‐ John Darnielle

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.
‐‐ Steven Wright

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
‐‐ Halsey

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I take medieval mystery breaks, for they can be completed in only a year.
‐‐ Sharon Kay Penman

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
‐‐ Mark Twain

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.
‐‐ Matt Lauer

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
‐‐ Galileo Galilei

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
‐‐ Conrad Hall

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
‐‐ Lee Konitz

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
‐‐ Lloyd Alexander

It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'
‐‐ Kevin Brownlow

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
‐‐ Fay Godwin

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.
‐‐ Glenn Frey

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.
‐‐ Alex Grey

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?
‐‐ Richard Donner

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.
‐‐ Allan Gurganus

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'
‐‐ Matthew Stewart

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.
‐‐ Tom Chapin

It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.
‐‐ Leila Aboulela

It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing... with employers. Oops. I vividly remember the moment I realized my company was going to fail. My co-founder and I were at our wits' end. By 2001, the dot-com bubble had burst, and we had spent all our money.
‐‐ Eric Ries

It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.
‐‐ Andrew McCarthy

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.
‐‐ Amanda Seyfried

It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.
‐‐ Li Na

It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
‐‐ Jose Gonzalez

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.
‐‐ Rory Stewart

It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
‐‐ Val McDermid

It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.
‐‐ Paul Merton

It was a blast. I was doing everything that teenagers do and everything people in their twenties do. I was playing as hard as I was working, which was an effort to really balance my life.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
‐‐ Rose Macaulay

It was a boy's name first.
‐‐ Leslie Nielsen

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
‐‐ George Barr McCutcheon

It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.
‐‐ Meghan Daum