All Quotes

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
‐‐ Red Smith

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.
‐‐ Michael Chabon

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
‐‐ David Leavitt

It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of experiences.
‐‐ Sri Srinivasan

It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.
‐‐ Jay Roach

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
‐‐ Gavyn Davies

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
‐‐ Illeana Douglas

It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.
‐‐ Jane Kaczmarek

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.
‐‐ John Amos

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
‐‐ Hamish Linklater

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.
‐‐ Sebastian Vettel

It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
‐‐ Cilla Black

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
‐‐ Dick Gregory

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.
‐‐ Philip Gibbs

It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.
‐‐ Ray Nitschke

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
‐‐ Edward Everett

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.
‐‐ Sherman Austin

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
‐‐ Irvine Welsh

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
‐‐ Arthur Baer

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
‐‐ Herman Hesse

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
‐‐ Bobby Darin

It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people's old discarded family photos and vacation pictures for pretty cheap - a quarter, 50 cents, five bucks for a really nice one.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
‐‐ Robert B. Laughlin

It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.
‐‐ Susanna Phillips

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions.
‐‐ Irene Joliot-Curie

It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.
‐‐ Lauren Holly

It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. And I remember thinking immediately, 'Here is a woman who doesn't mess around.' Steel in her spine, Hillary didn't want to talk about anything other than how to make children's lives better.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.
‐‐ Stanley Marcus

It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.
‐‐ Simon Kuznets

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.
‐‐ Robert B. Laughlin

It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
‐‐ Yvette Clarke

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.
‐‐ Lucas Till

It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.
‐‐ Mike Lowry

It was awesome growing up in New Orleans because there were great metal bands, there were great hardcore bands, there were great thrash metal bands in the middle '80s and what-not. But then, take me out of New Orleans, and I moved to Fort Worth in 1987, and there's a scene there, too. And Texas absolutely has a different sound.
‐‐ Phil Anselmo

It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.
‐‐ Ian Harding

It was Barry Diller's idea to start 'The Daily Beast,' and he has turned out to be the best partner I've ever had. There's no one better to go into the jungle with.
‐‐ Tina Brown

It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it.
‐‐ Robert Jay Lifton

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.
‐‐ Matt Dillon

It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
‐‐ Arthur Machen

It was better to be known as the kid who could draw than as the short kid.
‐‐ Shaun Tan

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.
‐‐ Torrie Wilson

It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.
‐‐ Shane Warne

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin