All Quotes

There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.
‐‐ Richard Widmark

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.
‐‐ Kathryn Hahn

There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
‐‐ Said Sayrafiezadeh

There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.
‐‐ Doug Harvey

There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Superman and Lois Lane.
‐‐ Jim Lee

There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
‐‐ Maggie Gyllenhaal

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

There was something very special about 'Doctor Who', and I did miss it a lot.
‐‐ Sophie Aldred

There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.
‐‐ John Buford

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.
‐‐ Sydney Brenner

There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music.
‐‐ Patti Scialfa

There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
‐‐ Jessica Lange

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
‐‐ Miroslav Vitous

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
‐‐ Edward Fitzgerald

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.
‐‐ Samuel Schmid

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.
‐‐ Sheryl Swoopes

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.
‐‐ Anatoly Chubais

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
‐‐ John Negroponte

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
‐‐ J. Cole

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
‐‐ Flume

There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
‐‐ Ed O'Brien

There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.
‐‐ Hugh Hardy

There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.
‐‐ Tove Lo

There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
‐‐ Karen Elson

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
‐‐ Landon Donovan

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.
‐‐ Dianna Agron

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.
‐‐ Anthony Mackie

There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'
‐‐ Anne Beatts

There was this really rock n' roll guy who was very obviously dragged to my concert by his girlfriend. He had tattoos all over, and he was wearing a Metallica T-shirt. He came up to me said it was one of his favorite concerts because I had reached for his heart and dragged it out and put it in front of his face.
‐‐ Lou Doillon

There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
‐‐ Imogen Heap

There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.
‐‐ Nicollette Sheridan

There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.
‐‐ Bob Saget

There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye of an usher, and then these other people would come on the stage: They spoke differently and had different clothes and hair. Afterward, they would come back, and they were my parents again. It was magic.
‐‐ Tyne Daly

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
‐‐ Daniel Johns

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.
‐‐ Marcel Dionne

There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
‐‐ Jasper Johns

There was very little drama and performance at my school, so I've never forgotten the people who did encourage me and I've thought whether it would be a good idea to even get in touch with them and just say thanks, because they really opened a door for me mentally and emotionally - that's really important.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

There wasn't a bigger issue in my campaign than Obamacare. Everyone I talk to, every business, a lot of family farmers, are concerned about how this will affect them.
‐‐ Jason T. Smith

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.
‐‐ Alfie Allen

There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.
‐‐ Eric Bana