All Quotes

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.
‐‐ Robbie Williams

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.
‐‐ Henryk Sienkiewicz

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.
‐‐ Juno Temple

On an iPhone, you touch on the digital keyboard and you know how the letter pops up and shows up bigger so you're making sure you're touching the correct letter? That's Nokia innovation.
‐‐ Stephen Elop

On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.
‐‐ Sharon Bolton

On 'Angel' I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz' stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself.
‐‐ Christian Kane

On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences - or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.
‐‐ Ezekiel Emanuel

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.
‐‐ Jim Webb

On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches.
‐‐ Daniel Hannan

On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
‐‐ Sean Penn

On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order.
‐‐ Jonathan Tropper

On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes.
‐‐ Louise Erdrich

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

On April 1, 1998, I launched Webmaster-Resources.com, and I remember that date specifically because it was the date that the price of a two-year domain name registration dropped from $100 to $70, and considering I was funding this out of my allowance, that $30 made all the difference.
‐‐ Matt Mickiewicz

On April 14, 1986, when the Reagan administration launched an airstrike on Libya in clear violation of international law, Kissinger did the rounds on news shows to justify the bombing. The day after the bombing, Kissinger appeared on ABC's 'Good Morning America' to voice his 'total support.' Attacking Libya, he said, was 'correct' and 'necessary.'
‐‐ Greg Grandin

On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.
‐‐ Ma Jun

On April 18, 1980, the last outpost of empire in Africa died. From Rhodesia's ashes rose a country that would take its place among the free nations as Zimbabwe, the last among equals. And men and women leapt to embrace this dream called Zimbabwe.
‐‐ Petina Gappah

On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to discuss saving the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their power to avoid dealing with the problem.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes.
‐‐ David Quammen

On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
‐‐ Dan Shechtman

On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar.
‐‐ Marc Guggenheim

On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
‐‐ James Wolcott

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd

On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

On average, an e-commerce client who evolves into a premier enterprise client increases their annual spend by 10 times in that first year.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

On average, an individual doesn't have a powerful connection with more than four to six people, and that's just as true here in the U.S. as it is in China.
‐‐ Geoffrey West

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.
‐‐ Hugh Mackay

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
‐‐ Michael Badnarik

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

On average, I order about three meals for myself in one sitting.
‐‐ Blake Lively

On average, it takes as much as $100 million in paid media for a brand to be a household name in America. Marketing partnerships are the best form of off-balance sheet financing one can ever find. Smart startups use this technique to scale their companies and build their brand equity.
‐‐ Jay Samit

On average, people miss about 70 percent of the posts in their 'Instagram' feed. What this is about is making sure that the 30 percent you see is the best 30 percent possible.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
‐‐ Nate Silver

On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.
‐‐ Tom Rath

On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.
‐‐ J. Philippe Rushton

On 'Awake,' we would take a couple hours per scene. Whereas on 'Anger Management,' we can take maybe 10 minutes on a scene if we're lucky.
‐‐ Daniela Bobadilla

On 'Awkward,' we really like to send the message out that we're relatable, and that we get what people are going through.
‐‐ Jillian Rose Reed

On 'B&B,' we shoot so fast and eight episodes a week, so we have to always be on our A-game. There's really no time to make certain adjustments. We usually shoot a scene in one take, maybe two or three only if needed.
‐‐ Texas Battle

On bad days, I like to wear something colourful so I strike attention. That's how I appear confident to others - and how I get confident.
‐‐ Elizabeth Jagger

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.
‐‐ Tama Janowitz

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.
‐‐ Malcolm Turnbull

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

On balance, I would say that anybody who reminds our lords and masters that the computerized society is fragile... has definitely done a service to the public at large.
‐‐ John Brunner