All Quotes

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
‐‐ James Joyce

My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.
‐‐ Annette Curtis Klause

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
‐‐ Okky Madasari

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

My work and my family are very important to me.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
‐‐ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.
‐‐ K. Eric Drexler

My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.
‐‐ John C. Mather

My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.
‐‐ Sally Jewell

My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.
‐‐ Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
‐‐ Howard Finster

My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.
‐‐ Judith Krantz

My work comes out of a deep psychological place, so it's not like I'm Object Man at home. Theoretically, I'm not against objects, but, personally, I'm not comfortable attaching myself to them - I don't seek them out. What you can say about my home is that it's not very ambitious.
‐‐ Tino Sehgal

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
‐‐ Jerry Rice

My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.
‐‐ Udonis Haslem

My work ethic is from sports.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
‐‐ David Almond

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.
‐‐ Mark Leyner

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.
‐‐ Ann Demeulemeester

My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, everybody feels obligated to make sure that it represents his own point of view.
‐‐ David Henry Hwang

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.
‐‐ Joan Halifax

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
‐‐ Anthony Braxton

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.
‐‐ Katherine Dunham

My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.
‐‐ Andres Serrano

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
‐‐ Robert Darnton

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.
‐‐ Richard Phillips

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
‐‐ Enid Blyton

My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.
‐‐ Miru Kim

My work in government has flowed from the fundamental idea of personal empowerment. It's about giving people the tools they need to pave their own way.
‐‐ James Langevin

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
‐‐ J. C. Watts

My work in Ukraine ceased following the country's parliamentary elections in October 2014.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
‐‐ Sam Yagan

My work is a game, a very serious game.
‐‐ M. C. Escher

My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses.
‐‐ Chick Hearn

My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.
‐‐ Mike Leigh

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
‐‐ Alice Walker

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
‐‐ Duane Michals

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.
‐‐ Elliott Erwitt

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.
‐‐ Lisa Kristine

My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.
‐‐ April Gornik

My work is about the world I live in. So, I sort of make a picture of my life or our lives. I'm always looking for something that is overlooked, so I need to constantly be aware of what's going on.
‐‐ Marilyn Minter

My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
‐‐ Bear Grylls

My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.
‐‐ Christien Meindertsma