All Quotes

It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.
‐‐ June Lockhart

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
‐‐ Howard Carter

It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'
‐‐ Andrew P. Harris

It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night.
‐‐ Scott Michael Foster

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
‐‐ Fran Drescher

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
‐‐ Malcolm Muggeridge

It was a sort of organic thing. I never went, 'I must be an actress.' I thought, 'I think I could do this. I think I could be good at this.' I would just get sort of hungry when I read something I thought I can do well, whether it was in books or in scripts or if I saw a certain movie. It sort of happened quite naturally.
‐‐ Alice Englert

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
‐‐ Liz Phair

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.
‐‐ Don Adams

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
‐‐ John Cheever

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
‐‐ Kanye West

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
‐‐ Ted Turner

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.
‐‐ Gloria Stuart

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
‐‐ Thomas de Quincey

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
‐‐ Paddy Ashdown

It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it.
‐‐ Joan Cusack

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
‐‐ Fay Vincent

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
‐‐ Anna Akhmatova

It was a total accident that I walked into my 'Super 8' audition looking exactly right for the part.
‐‐ Ron Eldard

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.
‐‐ Stefan Edberg

It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.
‐‐ Arto Lindsay

It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force. The talented few amongst the Air Force pilots are made test pilots. Test pilots are best suited to look at the space programme as they are trained to expect the unexpected.
‐‐ Kapil Sharma

It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.
‐‐ Elena Kagan

It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.
‐‐ Lil' Kim

It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally.
‐‐ Jim Otto

It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.
‐‐ Martin Lel

It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.
‐‐ Jessica Raine

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.
‐‐ Jay-Z

It was a very long and hard decision. My dad kept telling me, 'You can always go to college, but you can't always go pro.' That made sense to me.
‐‐ Simone Biles

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.
‐‐ Diane Cilento

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.
‐‐ Raul Julia

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
‐‐ J. D. Salinger

It was a very well-rounded childhood with lots of different opportunities. My mom will say she set out to overstimulate me - surround me with way too many things and let me pick. As a result, I've always been a multitasker; I've always liked a lot of variety.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
‐‐ Little Richard

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible.
‐‐ Michael Patrick Jann

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.
‐‐ Jay-Z

It was a wild time - a time that I don't miss anymore. But then again, I'm 62 years old now and I think that lifestyle would probably put me where Frank's at now.
‐‐ Jimmy Carl Black

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
‐‐ Kathleen Winsor

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.
‐‐ Phil Daniels

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.
‐‐ Barry Sanders

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.
‐‐ Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.
‐‐ Margot Kidder

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.
‐‐ Laurie Lee