All Quotes

What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.
‐‐ James Buchan

What Hollywood truly wants is for people to be themselves. I think what it's designed for is to kind of turn people into something and just make them saleable. But what it really stands for, what it really loves, are people who are unafraid to be themselves, and as you can see, these are people who are excelling in their careers.
‐‐ Troian Bellisario

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
‐‐ Abu Bakar Bashir

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
‐‐ Sophocles

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
‐‐ Dada Vaswani

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

What hurt most were the people who came up to me and said they lost $1,000 on me. It just makes you mad.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!
‐‐ Jonathan Davis

What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.
‐‐ Francis Spufford

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.
‐‐ Aubrey de Grey

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that's what I want.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land.
‐‐ Mike Simpson

What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. And he said, you know, if you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make.
‐‐ Ben Carson

What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

What I always knew about my parents was that they were in love, and this love had a fizz. It was exciting to be their child, to be around them. There was a dynamism between them, a charge.
‐‐ Monique Roffey

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
‐‐ Samantha Harvey

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
‐‐ Zeljko Ivanek

What I always loved about vintage clothes is that you let the woman who wore it before you live on in some way.
‐‐ Liz Goldwyn

What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.
‐‐ Buck Henry

What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'
‐‐ Mary Barra

What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.
‐‐ Kevin McDonald

What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

What I always try to do is make the political personal.
‐‐ Robert Greenwald

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.
‐‐ Mark Knopfler

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.
‐‐ Scott Kim

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.
‐‐ Jason Robert Brown

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.
‐‐ Emmanuel Jal

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.
‐‐ Alan Alda

What I am afraid of is... Gandhi. He has brains and always tried to put me in the wrong. I have to be on guard and alert all the time.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
‐‐ S. C. Gwynne

What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
‐‐ Tony Judt

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
‐‐ Phyllis Schlafly

What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.
‐‐ Charlotte Rampling

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
‐‐ Russell Banks

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
‐‐ Richard Pryor

What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.
‐‐ Mike Pence

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
‐‐ John Cheever

What I am interested in is the present time.
‐‐ Sophie Marceau

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
‐‐ David Attenborough

What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
‐‐ Robert M. Pirsig

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
‐‐ Avery Brooks