All Quotes

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

There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
‐‐ Bridget Riley

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
‐‐ Kat Graham

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.
‐‐ Julianne Hough

There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years.
‐‐ Gagan Narang

There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.
‐‐ Billy Idol

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
‐‐ Tom Clancy

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
‐‐ Rachel Johnson

There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.
‐‐ John Cornwell

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.
‐‐ Ed McMahon

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee

There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.
‐‐ Mark Barrowcliffe

There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.
‐‐ David Denman

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'
‐‐ Jim Carrey

There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.
‐‐ Harmon Killebrew

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.
‐‐ Jess Walter

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.
‐‐ ASAP Rocky

There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.
‐‐ Robert Cailliau

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
‐‐ Frank Murphy

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.
‐‐ Montel Williams

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
‐‐ Agnetha Faltskog

There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.
‐‐ Brian Greene

There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. cartoon, and at the end of it you could probably win 'Jeopardy.'
‐‐ Tony Danza

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
‐‐ Anatole Broyard

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

There was a time where I knew I was as funny as many dudes, but I had people telling me, 'You have to wear a dress onstage. You need to be more feminine.'
‐‐ Leslie Jones

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
‐‐ Maggie Q

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.
‐‐ Nick Carter

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
‐‐ Cassandra Wilson

There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East.
‐‐ Robbie Keane

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.
‐‐ Ovadia Yosef

There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere.
‐‐ Edward Ball

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.
‐‐ Joichi Ito

There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'
‐‐ David Levering Lewis

There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.
‐‐ Britt Daniel

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
‐‐ Ken Follett

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
‐‐ Charles Guggenheim

There was a week where I was depressed with the rain, and people were telling me to get a light box. But I live on the 14th floor of an apartment complex, and I see the Broadway Bridge and Mount Hood, and it keeps me such company. And like true Oregonians, I don't carry an umbrella anymore.
‐‐ Reggie Lee