All Quotes

What if we thought of health and security in retirement as one basket?
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.
‐‐ Jenifer Lewis

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
‐‐ Isaac Mizrahi

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?
‐‐ Nido Qubein

What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
‐‐ Ted Sarandos

What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.
‐‐ Sondra Radvanovsky

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
‐‐ Ralph Marston

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
‐‐ Jay Alan Sekulow

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.
‐‐ Bob Marley

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.
‐‐ Fritz Kreisler

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.
‐‐ Robert Wagner

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
‐‐ Sally Rand

What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?
‐‐ Dwayne Andreas

What in the world is a hangover cure?
‐‐ Brian Wilson

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.
‐‐ John Ortberg

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
‐‐ Herbert Simon

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
‐‐ Patricia Reilly Giff

What inspired me to work so hard and to maintain my determination was seeing my mother. She was an immigrant and was struggling in America to make it by; that inspired me to work hard.
‐‐ Michelle Phan

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
‐‐ Robert Moog

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
‐‐ Tea Obreht

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

What interested me in doing 'Dragonball' was that it's a huge comic book series that has built a great fan base, and it's a great action movie!
‐‐ Texas Battle

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
‐‐ Robert Wilson

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.
‐‐ John Gunther

What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.
‐‐ Brian Selznick

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.
‐‐ Jacques Audiard

What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have.
‐‐ Helen McCrory

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
‐‐ Peter Gay

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
‐‐ Nicole Krauss

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.
‐‐ Chevy Chase

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.
‐‐ Lauren Bush

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
‐‐ Barry Diller

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
‐‐ Anish Kapoor

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
‐‐ Tracy Kidder

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
‐‐ Calvin Trillin

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.
‐‐ John Updike

What interests me more than dramatic heroics are the domestic things: How do people do laundry and find food when the world is about to end?
‐‐ Susan Beth Pfeffer

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada