All Quotes

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

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.
‐‐ Doug Harvey

When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.
‐‐ Carrie Vaughn

When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right.
‐‐ Craig Stevens

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.
‐‐ Evander Holyfield

When at home in Buckinghamshire, I tend to work out for two to three hours on the track or in the woods close by and then do weights.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
‐‐ Dr. Seuss

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
‐‐ Anselm Kiefer

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted.
‐‐ Hilary Rosen

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.
‐‐ Rainbow Rowell

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
‐‐ Ben Kingsley

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
‐‐ Sinclair Lewis

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.
‐‐ Donnie Yen

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
‐‐ Matt Groening

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
‐‐ Richard Russo

When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people.
‐‐ Jens Stoltenberg

When 'Avatar' came out, we were out non-stop for a year and a half doing red carpet events. I had a stylist who helped me, but it was really hard, and we couldn't find many sustainable dresses.
‐‐ Suzy Amis

When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

When bands got really big and sold a lot of records back in the day and did really well on the road, everyone developed a certain ego. And there's a certain entitlement that comes with that. And it stops people from communicating the way you used to communicate when you were in a band together and it was all for one, one for all.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
‐‐ Taslima Nasrin

When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.
‐‐ Paul Broun

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
‐‐ Joe DiMaggio

When became citizens, we took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and laws and bear faith and allegiance to the same. When I became a judge last year, I took the very same oath administered by Justice O'Conner. Rather amazingly, I'm now in the position to administer that oath to others who themselves are becoming citizens.
‐‐ Sri Srinivasan

When Beethoven's Seventh Symphony was premiered, after the second movement, they clapped so much that they had the repeat the second movement and do it again.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
‐‐ Harlan Ellison

When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'
‐‐ Christine Taylor

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
‐‐ Herbert V. Prochnow

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore in 1992 - from the same generational, ideological, and geographical background as his - it underscored his campaign's central argument that this was a clash between the past and the future, that 'Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow' was indeed the campaign's anthem.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.
‐‐ Chaka Fattah

When Bill Morgan and I formed Kinder Morgan in February of 1997, it had about $300 million in enterprise value.
‐‐ Richard Kinder

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
‐‐ Tom Wopat

When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.'
‐‐ George Takei

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
‐‐ Bill Watterson

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.
‐‐ Tyler Perry

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
‐‐ Phyllis McGinley

When blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the trained clairvoyant as it courses through the living body, blood is found to be a gas, a spiritual essence.
‐‐ Max Heindel

When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
‐‐ Bill Engvall

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
‐‐ Graham Coxon

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
‐‐ Owen D. Young

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.
‐‐ Rosemary Clooney

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.
‐‐ Tracy Letts

When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts.
‐‐ Gina Gershon