All Quotes

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
‐‐ Sam Kinison

It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.
‐‐ Selma Blair

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.
‐‐ Ayrton Senna

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.
‐‐ Dick Wolf

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.
‐‐ Jennifer Lawrence

It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.
‐‐ Cynthia Kenyon

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.
‐‐ Henry Thomas

It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.
‐‐ Ethan Suplee

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
‐‐ Kevin J. Anderson

It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.
‐‐ Colin Baker

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
‐‐ Barney Ross

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
‐‐ Garrison Keillor

It was magical growing up in New Jersey. My sister and I would go nuts in the basement and do full theater productions. We used a humidifier as a fog machine. It was over the top.
‐‐ Brandon Uranowitz

It was Max Perutz who inspired me to go into structural biology when he gave a lecture at Harvard in 1963. As soon as I heard him talk, I decided that this is what I want to do.
‐‐ Thomas A. Steitz

It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
‐‐ John Eldredge

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
‐‐ Andy Taylor

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.
‐‐ Robert McCloskey

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.
‐‐ Michael Welch

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.
‐‐ Anna Chlumsky

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.
‐‐ Priscilla Presley

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
‐‐ Herman Hesse

It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.
‐‐ Neil Tennant

It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.
‐‐ George Kell

It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
‐‐ Stevie Nicks

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.
‐‐ Richard Helms

It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
‐‐ Billy Eckstine

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
‐‐ Sophocles

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.
‐‐ Gian Carlo Menotti

It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.
‐‐ Rita Ora

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
‐‐ Hans Frank

It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.
‐‐ Guy Lafleur

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
‐‐ Laurel Lea

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.
‐‐ Stormzy

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
‐‐ Chris Kyle

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
‐‐ Josef Albers

It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
‐‐ Paul Mellon

It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.
‐‐ H. Robert Horvitz

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
‐‐ Dawn French

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
‐‐ Zinedine Zidane