All Quotes

When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
‐‐ Barack Obama

When Brad and I got married in 2008, it got a lot of attention. And all the attention was over the fact that we were two men, but people were hardly conscious of the fact that we were entering into an interracial marriage. That's wonderful, because it was only 50 years ago with Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriages were made legal.
‐‐ George Takei

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.
‐‐ Mekhi Phifer

When 'Breaking Bad' was on, I would have loved to have been a part of that.
‐‐ Robbie Kay

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
‐‐ Terry Bradshaw

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
‐‐ Arthur Ashe

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.
‐‐ Eric Liu

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.
‐‐ Al Hirt

When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and neglecting discipline. Nike's 'Just do it' ads were teaching young people to break the rules.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.
‐‐ Eminem

When building in a place that already has a dominant style, it's important to behave yourself. Look around; refer to what you see. In the mountains above Salzburg, I saw charming chalets and wildflower meadows. The chalets are cozy - I don't do cozy. The meadows are in a soft disarray - I don't do soft, and I don't do disarray. I do order.
‐‐ Anouska Hempel

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'
‐‐ Michelle Malkin

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
‐‐ Ed Harris

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.
‐‐ Angela Davis

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
‐‐ Don Bluth

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
‐‐ Mitch Daniels

When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
‐‐ Byron Dorgan

When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.
‐‐ Jeb Bush

When businesses think of locating in North America, I want to make sure that they think first about Florida.
‐‐ Rick Scott

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?
‐‐ Rene Rivkin

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
‐‐ Billy Eckstine

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.
‐‐ Joel Silver

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
‐‐ John Muir

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.
‐‐ Bill Halter

When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
‐‐ J. B. Pritzker

When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.
‐‐ Gary Frank

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.
‐‐ Kitty Kelley

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the New York 'Daily News,' and on 130 occasions while talking to 'The New York Times' during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch.
‐‐ Drew Goddard

When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air.
‐‐ Craig Brown

When Casey Stengel was putting his mark on all four New York baseball teams, he came off as many things. I have to admit I never thought of him as anybody's uncle.
‐‐ George Vecsey

When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler

When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.
‐‐ Frank Abagnale

When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator.
‐‐ Paul Hawken

When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.
‐‐ Edith Widder

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.
‐‐ Rick Danko

When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
‐‐ Bill Lee

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.
‐‐ David Coverdale

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.
‐‐ Peter L. Berger

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'
‐‐ Jason Reitman

When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.
‐‐ Matthew Pearl