All Quotes

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.
‐‐ Helen Suzman

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.
‐‐ Carolyn Mackler

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
‐‐ David Korten

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
‐‐ Allen Ginsberg

My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
‐‐ Colin Powell

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
‐‐ Jack Markell

My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
‐‐ Alan Huffman

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
‐‐ Edward Weston

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize.
‐‐ Mike Honda

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
‐‐ Joan Didion

My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.
‐‐ Karen Gillan

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
‐‐ Mitch Albom

My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.
‐‐ Richard Elman

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

My own favorite way to cook and eat razor clams is to simply dredge them in a mix of seasoned flour and cornmeal, then pan fry them in butter until crisp and golden. Be careful not to overcook them so they stay tender, not tough and chewy.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

My own feeling on the consumer is that he - he or she looks at what it costs them to pay their bills every month as opposed to how much debt they have.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone

My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore them through the story 'Four Feathers' and through this actor called Heath Ledger. I knew that I had to find a 21-year-old who could play wisdom at the end. He's only 21 or 22, and I tested him.
‐‐ Shekhar Kapur

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.
‐‐ Stephen Jay Gould

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.
‐‐ Robert Winston

My own foundation concentrates on women's economic empowerment on the basis that if women have their own money and are able to support themselves, they can make choices about what happens to them in their lives, about whether they have education, whether they get married, and what happens to their children.
‐‐ Cherie Blair

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
‐‐ Anne Rice

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn

My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.
‐‐ Jay Parini

My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing the plains to avoid the dust. However, he always arrived at his destination and did his share of the work.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.
‐‐ Ariel Gore

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.
‐‐ Betsy Byars

My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

My own idea is that if the men hold any meetings or attempt to form any organization, we should be prepared to be fully informed of all that goes on and unhesitatingly discharge any men connected with this movement. In this way, our peace will be secure for a long time, and it will be easily done if taken at the start.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
‐‐ Daisy Ashford

My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.
‐‐ Paul Sabatier

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.
‐‐ Lee Krasner

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.
‐‐ Lauren Willig

My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
‐‐ Jack Kilby

My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.
‐‐ David Rockefeller

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
‐‐ Henry Taube

My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.
‐‐ Evel Knievel

My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. We talked about these things at the dinner table, at their schools, with their friends.
‐‐ Serge Schmemann

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an author, your name almost becomes a brand; readers know what to expect.
‐‐ Sophie Kinsella

My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.
‐‐ Ken Bruen

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.
‐‐ Annie Besant