All Quotes

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
‐‐ Paul Tsongas

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
‐‐ Alexis Arguello

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
‐‐ Ernie Pyle

It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month.
‐‐ Kathy Griffin

It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.
‐‐ Fred Schneider

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.
‐‐ Archie Shepp

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.
‐‐ Spike Milligan

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.
‐‐ Charles Tennyson Turner

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.
‐‐ DeForest Kelley

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there's nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
‐‐ Patrick McGoohan

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.
‐‐ Clifford D. Simak

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
‐‐ Lance Loud

It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
‐‐ Patricia McBride

It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was a lot of fun. She's an extremely hard worker, perfectionist, and a talented writer.
‐‐ Chris Stokes

It was a pleasure to work with everybody at 'American Idol' and to be able to be part of the 'Idol' family.
‐‐ Katie Stevens

It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.
‐‐ Dustin Moskovitz

It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.
‐‐ Andrea Mitchell

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.
‐‐ Bobby Thomson

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.
‐‐ Norman Rockwell

It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.
‐‐ Sterling Marlin

It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.
‐‐ Billy Graham

It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.
‐‐ David Gower

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.
‐‐ Neil Diamond

It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked.
‐‐ Jared Leto

It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.
‐‐ David Gest

It was a real sort of synergistic 'Aha!' moment when I started acting.
‐‐ Pete Ploszek

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, and it is such an honor to be able to say that.
‐‐ Camila Alves

It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.
‐‐ Matisyahu

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.
‐‐ Dhani Harrison

It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.
‐‐ Robert Dold

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
‐‐ Maya Lin

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.
‐‐ Francis Parkman

It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

It was a scandal when I did French 'Playboy' in 2008, though I was never actually nude in it. I think it's really funny that I'll have a cover of 'Playboy' to show my grandkids.
‐‐ Lily Cole

It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
‐‐ Ian McDiarmid

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.
‐‐ Arto Lindsay

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
‐‐ Robert Hughes

It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember being like, 'What are you doing?' when James Roday first started improvising. Steve and the writing staff write it that way. They leave gaps.
‐‐ Dule Hill

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
‐‐ Michael Behe

It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience.
‐‐ Monty Hall