All Quotes

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
‐‐ Bill Rancic

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
‐‐ Mark Akenside

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.
‐‐ Thom Yorke

This was such an extraordinary situation that I simply could not accept it.
‐‐ Erno Rubik

This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.
‐‐ Eddie Bernice Johnson

This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.
‐‐ Judith Rodin

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.
‐‐ Joseph Butler

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.
‐‐ Donald Johanson

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
‐‐ Vanilla Ice

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.
‐‐ Jeri Ryan

This was what you did in the '50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids - a girl and a boy.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

This way of life is worth defending.
‐‐ George W. Bush

This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing spring our glost oven fell while firing doing us considerable damage and rendering it necessary to build a new one.
‐‐ John Hawley

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
‐‐ Jacques Delors

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
‐‐ Bob Ney

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.
‐‐ Ai Weiwei

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
‐‐ Artur Davis

This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.
‐‐ Glen Hansard

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.
‐‐ Matt LeBlanc

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
‐‐ Pam Grier

This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.
‐‐ Rick Moranis

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.
‐‐ Jennie Finch

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.
‐‐ Charles Ferguson Smith

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
‐‐ Anatoly Karpov

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.
‐‐ Julie Brown

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.
‐‐ Donny Osmond

This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It's no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It's the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
‐‐ Natalie Jeremijenko

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
‐‐ Steven Squyres

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
‐‐ Tavis Smiley

This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.
‐‐ Herman Cain

This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.
‐‐ Lisa Cholodenko

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
‐‐ Bill Gates

This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
‐‐ Robert Shea

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.
‐‐ Sean Combs

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
‐‐ Maisie Williams

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!
‐‐ Nigel Lythgoe

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.
‐‐ Jeffrey Tambor

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.
‐‐ Michael Cooper

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
‐‐ Fiona Shaw