All Quotes

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
‐‐ Virginia Satir

What 'listo' means in Spanish is this: it means prepared, it means battle-tested, it means rock solid, up for anything, never backing down. And, friends, Hillary Clinton, she is listo!
‐‐ Tim Kaine

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.
‐‐ Pinetop Perkins

What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
‐‐ George Eliot

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

What lots of people have been trying to do ever since is find what's beyond the current Standard Model. So far, it has stood impervious to all attacks.
‐‐ Burton Richter

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.
‐‐ Israel Horovitz

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.
‐‐ Jojo Moyes

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.
‐‐ Carl Maria von Weber

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
‐‐ Carl Maria von Weber

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
‐‐ Leo Buscaglia

What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them.
‐‐ Mustafa Akyol

What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.
‐‐ Chris Wedge

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
‐‐ Tommy Chong

What made me decide to run was the dire state of the economy and the non-leadership of President Obama. At that point in time, my campaign put a mustache on Obama as part of the national campaign drive.
‐‐ Kesha Rogers

What made me empathic was my depressions.
‐‐ Alice Weaver Flaherty

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.
‐‐ Elisabeth Rohm

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.
‐‐ Ronnie Montrose

What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.
‐‐ Tom Golisano

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
‐‐ Chuck D

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
‐‐ Dan DeCarlo

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.
‐‐ James Arness

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
‐‐ Clara Zetkin

What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.
‐‐ Brian Greene

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
‐‐ Lawrence Clark Powell

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
‐‐ Chuck Grassley

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.
‐‐ John Boyne

What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
‐‐ Buddy Hackett

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
‐‐ Seth Grahame-Smith

What makes a good deli is a place that, one, is generally family-owned or owned by individuals that care. Delis that are owned by large corporations tend not to have that same soul. And two, delis that make as much of their food from scratch as possible.
‐‐ David Sax

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.
‐‐ Robert Klein

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.
‐‐ Amy Alcott

What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
‐‐ Diane Warren

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff