All Quotes

It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
‐‐ Aarti Sequeira

It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It's when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level.
‐‐ Monte Irvin

It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound.
‐‐ Paul Horn

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.
‐‐ George Andrew Olah

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.
‐‐ Jonah Lomu

It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
‐‐ Bryn Terfel

It was in Dara'a that Syria's non-violent democratic movement had begun in 2011, with schoolboys scrawling on a wall: 'The people want to topple the regime.'
‐‐ Terry Glavin

It was in England that I discovered theatre. I didn't have any money, but I would just eat yoghurt in order to get some money for tickets.
‐‐ Caterina Murino

It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
‐‐ Carolyn See

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
‐‐ Blythe Danner

It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
‐‐ Felicity Kendal

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.
‐‐ Rosamund Pike

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
‐‐ Moshe Dayan

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
‐‐ Moshe Dayan

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.
‐‐ Andy Partridge

It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time when the church was so connected to the world.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
‐‐ Georgia O'Keeffe

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.
‐‐ George Stigler

It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!
‐‐ Candace Cameron Bure

It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in America to enter into dialogue with Christian theologians on a high theological level.
‐‐ David Novak

It was in the first Abe administration that we started the mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests between Japan and China.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.
‐‐ Jacob Ruppert

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
‐‐ Edmond About

It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same.
‐‐ Carl Zeiss

It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.
‐‐ John Bright

It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.
‐‐ Common

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.
‐‐ James Lind

It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
‐‐ Ed Stoppard

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.
‐‐ Alfred Einstein

It was ingrained in me to be gracious.
‐‐ Tory Burch

It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
‐‐ G-Eazy

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
‐‐ Ian Anderson

It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I'll do a voice, and it's me doing the voice. To have to be Robin Williams doing the voice was an interesting sort of study in getting into somebody's head.
‐‐ Chris Diamantopoulos

It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
‐‐ Vin Diesel

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
‐‐ K'naan

It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker

It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.
‐‐ Tom Holt

It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day.
‐‐ Fuzzy Zoeller

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.
‐‐ Curt Weldon

It was January 1983 when we launched 'Frontline' on PBS with 'An Unauthorized History of the NFL.' The program was anchored by Jessica Savitch. We wanted to get attention, and we got it.
‐‐ David Fanning

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren't into me, and tried too hard to fit into this 'blackness' I was supposed to be.
‐‐ Issa Rae

It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.
‐‐ Bethany Hamilton

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.
‐‐ Georg Brandes

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
‐‐ Arthur Smith