All Quotes

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.
‐‐ Alan Cooper

There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.
‐‐ George Clooney

There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don't think I could ever win that game.
‐‐ Drew Carey

There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.
‐‐ Chaz Bono

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
‐‐ Joan Didion

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.
‐‐ Jo Brand

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.
‐‐ Richard Louv

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
‐‐ Tim Heidecker

There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
‐‐ Ian Wace

There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
‐‐ Dick Gregory

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.
‐‐ Garry Shandling

There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, 'I remember when 'all right' was two words.'
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a good family of actors in 'Portlandia.' It's a small community with people who pop up again and again. The show's a little weird show, and you want to grow with the people who are in it, like Dana who plays the chicken waitress, and Ellen who was the adult babysitter.
‐‐ Jonathan Krisel

There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.
‐‐ Ian Lustick

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.
‐‐ Terrence Malick

There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies.
‐‐ Rick Moranis

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.
‐‐ Robert Conrad

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.
‐‐ Charlie Rose

There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.
‐‐ Boman Irani

There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think.
‐‐ Chris Lowe

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.
‐‐ Karel Reisz

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.
‐‐ Frank Langella

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.
‐‐ David Canary

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
‐‐ Derek Bok

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there.
‐‐ Michael Richards

There's a great deal of love for one another on this club. Perhaps we're living in Camelot.
‐‐ Jerry Kramer

There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

There's a great deal of stripping away; in early drafts, I may say the same thing two or three times, and each may be appropriate, but I try to pick the best and improve it. I work on sound a great deal, and I will change a word or two, revise punctuation and line breaks, looking for the sound I want.
‐‐ Donald Hall

There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When I went through the Sundance program, it was half women and half men.
‐‐ Gina Prince-Bythewood

There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we're close to the end of the age.
‐‐ Billy Graham

There's a great desire for people to alter themselves, but it's also the art of transformation. 'I want a bigger butt; I want bigger boobs.' The artifice interests me - how we're capable of altering ourselves. There's a creative element that's very intriguing.
‐‐ Mickalene Thomas

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.
‐‐ Shirley Knight

There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.
‐‐ Joshua Roman

There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.
‐‐ Kris Carr

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.
‐‐ Shel Silverstein

There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about how he's been trying to get out of Iraq who were our allies, who are now subject to torture, and their families are being killed because of their alliance to the United States.
‐‐ Rory Kennedy

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
‐‐ Josh Billings

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.
‐‐ Gerard Butler