Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.
‐‐ Virginia Henley
Probably fishing is my first passion.
‐‐ Luke Bryan
Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.
‐‐ David A. R. White
Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.
‐‐ John Glenn
Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were no regularized processes in either Northern or Southern Army for notifying next of kin.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
‐‐ Cameron Crowe
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.
‐‐ Steven Pinker
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
‐‐ Joan D. Vinge
Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare
Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.
‐‐ Curtis Sittenfeld
Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.
‐‐ Marat Safin
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
‐‐ Lakhdar Brahimi
Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, and it will go way past us and way past India. Given the growth, the size, the opportunities, I don't think there's any other place in the world that can match it.
‐‐ David Rubenstein
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
‐‐ Patrick White
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
‐‐ Lionel Trilling
Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there.
‐‐ John Cusack
Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.
‐‐ Jack LaLanne
Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.
‐‐ John Lasseter
Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth
Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.
‐‐ Marcia Angell
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
‐‐ Barry Mann
Probably my biggest challenge is not eating all the food that I want to eat sometimes.
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt
Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.
‐‐ Jonny Lang
Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.
‐‐ Shane Black
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
‐‐ Catherine Helen Spence
Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
‐‐ Ed Bradley
Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.
‐‐ Arlo Guthrie
Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
‐‐ Abraham Flexner
Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is.
‐‐ Brian Wilson
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates
Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
‐‐ M. F. K. Fisher
Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz
Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
‐‐ Emily Greene Balch
Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids.
‐‐ Catherine Bell
Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
‐‐ Carly Patterson
Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.
‐‐ Bo Derek
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
‐‐ Alan Jackson
Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
‐‐ Eric Idle
Probably, subliminally, I think of the reader as a kind of collaborator. I don't want to say something for the reader that the reader could have said for himself.
‐‐ Thomas McGuane
Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
‐‐ Debi Thomas
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
‐‐ George Orwell
Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina
Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'
‐‐ Bob Newhart
Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe.
‐‐ Lee Westwood
Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.
‐‐ Jerry Kramer
Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.
‐‐ Jimmy Piersall