All Quotes

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
‐‐ Dan Deacon

It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn't know how to treat it.
‐‐ Peter Hook

It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp.
‐‐ Michael Shanks

It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.
‐‐ Andrew Luck

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
‐‐ Nanci Griffith

It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world - the real world wasn't so much fun.
‐‐ Nicholas Brendon

It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.
‐‐ Andrew-Lee Potts

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
‐‐ Herbert Read

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.
‐‐ Georges Simenon

It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.
‐‐ Steve James

It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.
‐‐ Louie Gohmert

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.
‐‐ Patti Smith

It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.
‐‐ Armand Deutsch

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
‐‐ Kingsley Amis

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
‐‐ Kenneth Williams

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.
‐‐ Roger Staubach

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
‐‐ Meg Ryan

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
‐‐ Barack Obama

It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your child to be really good at classical music performance.
‐‐ Euny Hong

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
‐‐ Garry Kasparov

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.
‐‐ Robert T. Bakker

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.
‐‐ Elle Varner

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.
‐‐ Christina Applegate

It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.
‐‐ Richard Ben-Veniste

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.
‐‐ Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.
‐‐ Heston Blumenthal

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.
‐‐ John Lewis

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.
‐‐ Robert B. Parker

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
‐‐ Tycho Brahe

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.
‐‐ Henry Chadwick

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.
‐‐ Johnny Bench

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
‐‐ K'naan

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.
‐‐ Robert Jenkins

It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.
‐‐ Bidzina Ivanishvili

It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
‐‐ Martin Bashir

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.
‐‐ Robert Towne

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
‐‐ Rosa Parks

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.
‐‐ Christine Lahti

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.
‐‐ Pieter Zeeman

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
‐‐ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.
‐‐ Hiawatha

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.
‐‐ Janet Reno

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
‐‐ Thomas Bulfinch

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.
‐‐ Mary Garden

It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book.
‐‐ James Salter