All Quotes

My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
‐‐ Vera Wang

My normal stuff is Dr. Perricone's hypoallergenic range. I have incredibly sensitive skin, so I struggled to find anything because my skin would react to so much stuff.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

My normal weight category is 48 kg. So for the 51 kg. category, I had to depend on lots of food and drinks before going in for the weigh-in. But that does not make my strength, my muscles. It's a little bit different. If there's a 48 kg. category, it's a perfect fit for me.
‐‐ Mary Kom

My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.'
‐‐ Celeste Holm

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.
‐‐ Bitsie Tulloch

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

My novel 'Wolf Brother' is set in northern Scandinavia during the late Stone Age, so I was aware from the start of Norse influences. I used some Norse names, and the soul-eater Thiazzi is based on the Norse storm giant, Thiassi.
‐‐ Michelle Paver

My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
‐‐ Jenna Blum

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
‐‐ Sharon Kay Penman

My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
‐‐ Fanny Howe

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
‐‐ Alan Furst

My novels are all ideas.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.
‐‐ Tom Perrotta

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
‐‐ Scarlett Thomas

My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.
‐‐ Marcus Sakey

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
‐‐ Donna Tartt

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.
‐‐ Kyrsten Sinema

My number one focus is and will always be football. I wanted to make sure that companies I partner with not only respect that, but also make sense and are quality products. I think Klipsch is synonymous with quality in the sound industry, so it was a natural partnership.
‐‐ Andrew Luck

My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it.
‐‐ Brad Thor

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
‐‐ Farrah Fawcett

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.
‐‐ Amanda Palmer

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.
‐‐ Brian Lamb

My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.
‐‐ Christopher Judge

My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
‐‐ Victoria Aveyard

My number one objective continues to be to defund or delay the implementation of Obamacare. But as long as any piece of this law is standing, it needs to apply to all Americans equally, and that includes members of Congress and our staff.
‐‐ Michael McCaul

My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.
‐‐ Roberto Aguire

My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
‐‐ Valerie June

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
‐‐ Maiara Walsh

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
‐‐ Courtney Love

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.
‐‐ Victoria Justice

My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights into the literary world. Reading about the love letters novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera blew my mind. Fascinating.
‐‐ Brie Larson

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll

My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.
‐‐ Lisa Loeb

My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

My object is to stop the guy with the ball before he gains another inch.
‐‐ Dick Lane

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
‐‐ Georges Cuvier

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
‐‐ Thomas Arnold

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
‐‐ Steve Earle

My objective has always been to get better, no matter where my ranking is.
‐‐ Luke Donald

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.
‐‐ John Caudwell

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.
‐‐ Stacy Keach