All Quotes

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
‐‐ Hans Urs von Balthasar

Not lost, but gone before.
‐‐ Matthew Henry

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
‐‐ Rem Koolhaas

Not many artists or bands go platinum every year, from what people have told me, so it's an honor to have so many fans. A million people, that's a lot of people! Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Justin Timberlake sell a few million, and so hopefully I'll make my way up to that.
‐‐ Phillip Phillips

Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.
‐‐ Mara Wilson

Not many college students know what they want to do.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.
‐‐ Thomas Langmann

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
‐‐ Marilyn French

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.
‐‐ Roger Moore

Not many people agree with what I do.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki

Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.
‐‐ Alexis Arguello

Not many people get to play the lead character in a gigantic film and model for Ralph Lauren; it's amazing.
‐‐ Levi Miller

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.
‐‐ George Brett

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
‐‐ Tig Notaro

Not many people know, but my joints are extremely hypermobile, and that's why I'm more prone to injuries. That's why most of my major injuries were with the joints. I had a career-threatening wrist injury where picking up a fork to feed myself was a problem, and the thought of playing tennis again was so far from my mind.
‐‐ Sania Mirza

Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

Not many people know this, but when Yes first started doing club dates back in 1968, '69, we did a few tracks from 'The Magic Garden' album in our set. We just loved the harmonies that the 5th Dimension had as well.
‐‐ Chris Squire

Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.
‐‐ Moon Unit Zappa

Not many people like Johannesburg, but I love the place.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

Not many people read my stuff, but I really like the ones that do.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan

Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it.
‐‐ James Wan

Not many people remember this, but in the first 'Death Wish' film, Charles Bronson doesn't actually go after the people that hurt his family: he just goes after every punk. He just blows them all away.
‐‐ James Wan

Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Not many shows bring fans and artists together, and 'Rock Dinner' is one of the few shows that does it. Every opportunity I get to get closer to one of my fans - and get to know them and talk to them - I'm always going to take that opportunity with arms wide open and make it a priority.
‐‐ Jencarlos Canela

Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!
‐‐ John Schneider

Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
‐‐ Bill Maris

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.
‐‐ Jo Brand

Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
‐‐ Anthony Holden

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.
‐‐ James Theodore Bent

Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
‐‐ Gagan Narang

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.
‐‐ John N. Mitchell

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.
‐‐ Mike Jackson

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.
‐‐ David Prowse

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
‐‐ Betty Ford

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.
‐‐ David Coverdale

Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.
‐‐ Fred Frith

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche