All Quotes

My purpose is far greater than my pain.
‐‐ Foxy Brown

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
‐‐ Arthur Hertzberg

My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief - to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.
‐‐ Stef Wertheimer

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?
‐‐ Emir Kusturica

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
‐‐ Andrei Tarkovsky

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
‐‐ George Armstrong Custer

My purpose is to refuel, refresh and rejuvenate moms.
‐‐ Lisa Whelchel

My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.
‐‐ Juliette Gordon Low

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.
‐‐ Mavis Staples

My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.
‐‐ Jerome Jarre

My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.
‐‐ Darlene Love

My putting strategy is simple: If you're not making putts, don't be afraid to change your technique.
‐‐ Louis Oosthuizen

My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
‐‐ Patrick Roy

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
‐‐ Kenny Loggins

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.
‐‐ Ruth Bernhard

My question about everything I do is, does it make our country stronger?
‐‐ Joe Donnelly

My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.'
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
‐‐ K'naan

My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'
‐‐ Marco Rubio

My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
‐‐ Rachel Bilson

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

My range is limited.
‐‐ Bob Dylan

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
‐‐ Laura Marling

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I have to say in the subjects of sales, loyalty, attitude, networking, business social media, and becoming a trusted advisor.
‐‐ Jeffrey Gitomer

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
‐‐ Salvatore Quasimodo

My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.
‐‐ George Packer

My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.
‐‐ Julia Glass

My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
‐‐ Jacob Epstein

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.
‐‐ John Updike

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
‐‐ Nina Blackwood

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
‐‐ Jack Prelutsky

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
‐‐ John Sharp Williams

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

My Ready-Mades have nothing to do with the 'objet trouve' because the so-called 'found object' is completely directed by personal taste. Personal taste decides that this is a beautiful object and is unique.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.
‐‐ Marilyn Horne

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

My real baby is renewable energy. I feel like whoever starts to crack this nut is going to have a pretty clear shot at the White House. It's a $2 trillion business that America's being left out of.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
‐‐ Chris Hughes

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
‐‐ Majora Carter

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.
‐‐ J. Cole

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
‐‐ James Cronin

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.
‐‐ Alice Waters