All Quotes

Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.
‐‐ Kenny Cunningham

Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.
‐‐ Felicity Kendal

Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life.
‐‐ Bob Weir

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
‐‐ Ray Stannard Baker

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
‐‐ Katherine Mansfield

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.
‐‐ Rosamund Pike

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
‐‐ Max Schmeling

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.
‐‐ Gail Devers

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
‐‐ Paul Berg

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.
‐‐ Cristela Alonzo

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
‐‐ Patricia MacLachlan

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
‐‐ Jez Butterworth

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
‐‐ Dido Armstrong

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.
‐‐ John Knowles

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
‐‐ Mary Wesley

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
‐‐ Luke Ford

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.
‐‐ McKayla Maroney

Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
‐‐ Zola Budd

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
‐‐ Bill Griffith

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
‐‐ Jack Paar

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.
‐‐ Jonah Lomu

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.
‐‐ Cobi Jones

Looking back now, thinking about that moment in the lights, with my heart pounding, Oscar in my hand, all I can say is I am grateful and humbled - still to this day. Next to marrying my husband and the birth of my children, it is one of the best days ever.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
‐‐ Bernard Cornwell

Looking back on high school, I just remember specific scenarios and thinking, wow, that was such a big deal at the time, but right now it feels like it never even happened. So I guess if I can give any advice, I would just say that everything will pass, and it'll feel like it was a big deal over nothing.
‐‐ Nina Dobrev

Looking back on humanity's battle with pollution, history has been made by thousands of ordinary people who one day say, 'No. I'm not satisfied. I don't want to wait, and I don't want to pass the buck. I want to stand up and do something. I want to do it here, and I want do to it now.'
‐‐ Chai Jing

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.
‐‐ Irwin Rose

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.
‐‐ Jim Evans

Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.
‐‐ Craig Brown

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
‐‐ Imelda Staunton

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.
‐‐ David Crane

Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

Looking back, when I was Gollum, I suppose I did break the mold to a certain extent. I'm proud, and very thrilled, to be a part of that.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
‐‐ Madhuri Dixit

Looking beyond the emerging markets, it is important not to lose sight of the growth opportunities that exist in the developed regions.
‐‐ Louis R. Chenevert

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
‐‐ Robert Crippen

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
‐‐ Bob Barr

Looking feminine is important to me. My personal style is fairly traditional. I was definitely influenced by my mother, who always looks elegant, and by Estee's classic style; she was always in Givenchy or Ungaro.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.
‐‐ Joe Garcia

'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.
‐‐ Alessia Cara

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.
‐‐ Josh Homme