All Quotes

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.
‐‐ Bonnie Bassler

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

When any fat is heated to frying temperatures, toxic volatile chemicals that can cause genetic mutations are released into the air.
‐‐ Michael Greger

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.
‐‐ Chip Conley

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
‐‐ C. Northcote Parkinson

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson

When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.
‐‐ Neill Blomkamp

When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.
‐‐ Donald Glover

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
‐‐ Gloria Vanderbilt

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.
‐‐ Mother Angelica

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
‐‐ Billy Graham

When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
‐‐ Florence Griffith Joyner

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.
‐‐ Carmen Electra

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.
‐‐ Graham Swift

When anything goes, it's women who lose.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.
‐‐ Didi Conn

When Apple introduced its game-changing iPhone in 2007, Nokia was caught sleeping on the job. Although it had actually developed an iPhone-style device - complete with a color touchscreen, maps, online shopping, the lot - some seven years earlier. Astonishingly, it never released the product.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
‐‐ John Cusack

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.
‐‐ Lucille Roybal-Allard

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
‐‐ John Barrymore

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
‐‐ Ben Stein

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.
‐‐ Regis Philbin

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.
‐‐ Eric S. Raymond

When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.
‐‐ David Baltimore

When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we say, 'out heterosexual actor' when we refer to Tom Hanks?
‐‐ Bryan Batt

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
‐‐ Candice Bergen

When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.
‐‐ Hubert Burda

When Arizona became a state, the federal government granted our founders nearly 11 million acres of state land. Every time we sell a piece of that land, proceeds go into the Land Trust where the money is invested and earns interest.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is more likely to be a confrontation amongst them.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, 'I have to speak out.'
‐‐ George Takei

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
‐‐ Corita Kent

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
‐‐ Robert Adams

When art wins, everyone wins.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.
‐‐ Ryan Lewis

When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on them at that time. In fact, he discovered the model species Dictyostelium discoideum, which is the species used in the majority of the experimental work today.
‐‐ John Tyler Bonner

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
‐‐ Stephen King

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.
‐‐ Paul Hawken

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
‐‐ Uma Thurman

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'
‐‐ Michael Hayden