All Quotes

There was a time I wouldn't fly to California if I had to spend the night. Can you believe it? I would not fly to California, the phrase was, 'if the sun has to set on me.' I just had prejudices against it.
‐‐ John Cullum

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
‐‐ Peabo Bryson

There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over - not just work, but I'm never going to feel young again, I'm always going to feel like I know what's going to happen, I'll know what to expect. Looking back I don't know if that was a midlife crisis, I don't know - but I don't feel that now. There's possibilities. It gets better.
‐‐ Paul Weller

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

There was a time in my early 20s when I would leave a movie theater and just feel so alone and lonely afterwards. I just felt like my life was nothing like those characters up on the screen, so perfect all the time. Why didn't I talk like that? Why don't I look like that?
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance

There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough.
‐‐ Ellen Greene

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
‐‐ Richard Pryor

There was a time in my life when I tried a lot of different things, different looks. Between the ages of 17 and 22, there were a lot of bad looks. But I guess you learn from your mistakes. After that, I kind of found my style and what I like to wear.
‐‐ Henrik Lundqvist

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

There was a time in the '90s where, as an African-American man, you had to be a misogynistic R&B star or a rapper, and I didn't fit into either one of those. I was advised by my label to remain closeted at that time.
‐‐ Billy Porter

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.
‐‐ Lucio Tan

There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!
‐‐ Monica Johnson

There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
‐‐ Pritam Chakraborty

There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.
‐‐ Mark Messier

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.
‐‐ Ruth Brown

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
‐‐ Ernest Holmes

There was a time when a musician was forced to act in a video. Seeing a singer step too far outside of his comfort zone to pour all of his high-school-drama angst into a poorly scripted scenario was a sight to behold.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.
‐‐ Brett Favre

There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I just kept going, 'You don't have any idea what goes into making a game, do you?'
‐‐ Nolan North

There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things.
‐‐ Mike Posner

There was a time when bright people had few prospects for higher education and good jobs here. But that is changing. India is no longer seen as an undesirable place to work or pursue research.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor

There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

There was a time when country never used to do videos.
‐‐ Crystal Gayle

There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.
‐‐ Geddy Lee

There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.
‐‐ Peter York

There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I'd wake up in the morning and immediately think, 'Now what am I doing tonight?' Now I'd be more likely to reach for a book.
‐‐ Gina Bellman

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.
‐‐ Tina Ambani

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
‐‐ Phylicia Rashad

There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.
‐‐ Katrina Kaif

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.
‐‐ CeeLo Green

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.
‐‐ Christian Slater

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.
‐‐ Tasha Smith

There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.
‐‐ Joaquin Phoenix

There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.
‐‐ Steven Seagal

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
‐‐ Patricia Velasquez

There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.
‐‐ Kathy Najimy

There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.
‐‐ Shania Twain

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
‐‐ Beth Broderick

There was a time when I was fighting with the decision as to whether or not a Hasidic man could go out and have a music career in the world and be involved in pop culture. For me, I was able to bring those two things together for quite some time.
‐‐ Matisyahu

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
‐‐ Ione Skye

There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
‐‐ Ian Anthony Dale

There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
‐‐ Nathan Sawaya

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.
‐‐ Amar Bose

There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing 'Fallout 3,' a very fun game.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
‐‐ James Wolcott

There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.
‐‐ Julian Sands