All Quotes

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
‐‐ Francois Truffaut

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
‐‐ Tina Fey

When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.
‐‐ Howard Blum

When 'Hung' got canceled, I was available for pilot season, and 'Arrow' was the first thing I auditioned for. It wasn't the first script that came to me, but it was my first audition.
‐‐ Stephen Amell

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear delineation of spheres, out goes the calm of unquestioned authority, and of course, out goes the gratitude.
‐‐ Sandra Tsing Loh

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
‐‐ Ashley Judd

When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
‐‐ Blake Mycoskie

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.
‐‐ James Sanborn

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
‐‐ Zoe Saldana

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

When I act, I don't even know there's a camera there, don't care.
‐‐ Chris Penn

When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know?
‐‐ Billy Magnussen

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.
‐‐ Sibel Kekilli

When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust

When I addressed international forums as prime minister, the Israeli people expected me to present bold political initiatives that would bring peace - not arguments outlining why achieving peace now is not possible.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.
‐‐ Candis Cayne

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
‐‐ Gerald Jampolsky

When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.
‐‐ Eric Ripert

When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
‐‐ Rachel Corrie

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
‐‐ Martin Luther

When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
‐‐ T. E. Lawrence

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?
‐‐ Alan Alda

When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verbally attack him.
‐‐ Jill Bennett

When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.
‐‐ Kygo

When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I mean - except you won't, because you will take it for granted that this is what the world is all about.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.
‐‐ Nate Holland

When I am brushing my teeth, I'm bending my leg behind me, or I'm lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I'm squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I'm washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
‐‐ Maxine Hong Kingston

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
‐‐ Yul Brynner

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
‐‐ Hilaire Belloc

When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.
‐‐ Paul Prudhomme

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
‐‐ Tanith Lee

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
‐‐ Marc Chagall

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
‐‐ Max Hastings

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.
‐‐ Conor McGregor

When I am full, I stop eating.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.
‐‐ Ella Henderson

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
‐‐ Jessica Lange

When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
‐‐ Henry Rollins