All Quotes

My worry is how to protect the Filipino.
‐‐ Rodrigo Duterte

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
‐‐ Tamara Mellon

My worst days are still pretty good days. That's something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it.
‐‐ Andy Roddick

My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation.
‐‐ Ice Cube

My worst expectations never happened.
‐‐ Barbara Bush

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.
‐‐ Adele

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.
‐‐ Eva Longoria

My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.
‐‐ Georgia Salpa

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
‐‐ Billy Boyd

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
‐‐ Katherine Heigl

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.
‐‐ Jamie Foxx

My worst haircuts have been the ones where I've done my own.
‐‐ Swizz Beatz

My worst hairstyle was a bowl cut parted down the middle. It was the '90s. It was what you did. I had that from 4th grade until freshman year in high school. I'm glad the pictures exist. I had great hair back then.
‐‐ Chris Evans

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.
‐‐ Stephanie Beacham

My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.
‐‐ Marc Faber

My worst job ever, this was when I was a kid, was picking potatoes on the back of a trailer in March. It was freezing, absolutely freezing. We had to sort the good ones from the bad ones. Once you do that for a day in March in the north of England, it makes you think there must be better jobs than this!
‐‐ Ben Miles

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.
‐‐ Rickie Lee Jones

My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame dress. My hair was all curled, and it was the first time I wore a garter belt. I felt so out of place!
‐‐ Martina Navratilova

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
‐‐ Brad Meltzer

My worst quality is impatience.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

My worst work happens when I get obedient.
‐‐ Michael Wincott

My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.
‐‐ Dan Gable

My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!'
‐‐ Jojo Moyes

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
‐‐ Alain de Botton

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
‐‐ Etel Adnan

My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
‐‐ Karl Ove Knausgaard

My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
‐‐ Nancy Garden

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
‐‐ Victoria Aveyard

My writing day follows my family's day. I get a good few hours in the mornings when the kids are out of the house. And I don't work at night any more. I like to see my family.
‐‐ Chang-Rae Lee

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
‐‐ Abraham Verghese

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
‐‐ Brent Weeks

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
‐‐ Paul Thomas Anderson

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
‐‐ Langston Hughes

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
‐‐ Dick Schaap

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
‐‐ Ryszard Kapuscinski

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
‐‐ Ted Dekker

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
‐‐ Tucker Max

My writing is called exotic or avant-garde because I write about rural places. Has it really come to this, that if you write about the country you are avant-garde? How did this happen? Modern agriculture and spaces are still so relevant.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.
‐‐ Jim Lehrer

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates