All Quotes

What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome with him? Did you spend much time together off-screen? Those are a small sampling of the inquiries I'm asked often, wherever I go around the world.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, 'Oh my God, I can't walk in that!' It was like, three inches - they look like kitten heels now.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

What was freely given to me, I freely give.
‐‐ Lauryn Hill

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.
‐‐ Anthony Holden

What was God doing before the divine creation?
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

What was I like in 1966? I was 19 years old, very confident, and life was a big adventure.
‐‐ Diana Quick

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
‐‐ James Garner

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
‐‐ Dan Stevens

What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?
‐‐ Michael Bergin

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.
‐‐ Debi Thomas

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

What was once a fringe idea - finding a way to use the record levels of overseas capital to finance new projects in the United States - is now mainstream. The support is there; we just have to work out the details.
‐‐ John Delaney

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
‐‐ Gavin Bryars

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.
‐‐ Kristen Bell

What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.
‐‐ Peter Hook

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.
‐‐ Scott Hamilton

What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.
‐‐ Ken Goldberg

What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.
‐‐ Hans Vestberg

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.
‐‐ Lisa Jakub

'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.
‐‐ Cathleen Schine

What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
‐‐ Eric Betzig

What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.
‐‐ Derek Jacobi

What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface.
‐‐ Megan Smith

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
‐‐ Gamal Abdel Nasser

What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.
‐‐ Benny Hinn

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.
‐‐ Sarah Vaughan

What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.
‐‐ Pat Gillick

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?
‐‐ Delmore Schwartz

What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?
‐‐ Mickey Rivers

What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.
‐‐ Dougray Scott

'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos?
‐‐ Seth Shostak

What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.
‐‐ Joe Lhota

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

What Washington needs is adult supervision.
‐‐ Barack Obama

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
‐‐ Plutarch

What we achieved under General Petraeus up through 2011, and defeating this threat that we faced out there, I mean, once we decided to come out of there, we squandered an enormous opportunity that, frankly, the military did actually provide our nation and provided the Middle East.
‐‐ Michael T. Flynn

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
‐‐ Blaine Lee

What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
‐‐ Ma Jun

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
‐‐ Richard Gere

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.
‐‐ Stanley Donen