All Quotes

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel

What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
‐‐ Eugene Delacroix

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
‐‐ Karl Rove

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.
‐‐ Emmanuel Jal

What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap.
‐‐ Casey James

What musicals need is a new me.
‐‐ Cameron Mackintosh

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?
‐‐ Paul Ricoeur

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
‐‐ Cotton Mather

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
‐‐ Princess Diana

What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.
‐‐ Arthur Levitt

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

What my day is like depends on where I am.
‐‐ Daniela Pestova

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
‐‐ Natasha Richardson

What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.
‐‐ Donald Trump

What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.
‐‐ Colin Farrell

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
‐‐ Paddy Ashdown

What my home life is like now is great.
‐‐ Missy Elliott

What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.
‐‐ Peter Hain

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.
‐‐ Chanda Kochhar

What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
‐‐ Elena Kagan

What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc.
‐‐ Chris Smith

What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

What my voting record reflects is constantly looking to improve the amount of resources we having going into research, development, and prototypes we have going into renewable energy sources.
‐‐ Chris Gibson

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'
‐‐ Tino Sehgal

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.
‐‐ Jose Ferreira

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
‐‐ Petrarch

What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
‐‐ Gail Collins

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
‐‐ Isaac Bashevis Singer

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
‐‐ Thomas Malory

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
‐‐ Mark McKinney

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

What nourishes me also destroys me.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
‐‐ Vicente Fox

What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
‐‐ Varley O'Connor

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.
‐‐ Ron Schiller

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
‐‐ Rand Paul

What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

What - of all the incredible duets that I've been able to sing, you know, John Raitt was still the one that I just shook in my boots just standing next to him. I loved him so much.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik