All Quotes

When I come to London now it's like being in L.A., because they know me like I'm at home.
‐‐ Raphael Saadiq

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.
‐‐ Jim Cramer

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
‐‐ Robert Crumb

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
‐‐ Chris LeDoux

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
‐‐ Barry White

When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.
‐‐ Pete Sampras

When I compete, I love a huge crowd, expectation, pressure, and I like to have nerves: the butterflies flying and my hands shaking. This way, I am completely amped, focused, and ready; otherwise, I tend to be to relaxed, content, and don't perform at my maximal potential.
‐‐ Caroline Buchanan

When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.
‐‐ Amy Chow

When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.
‐‐ Bill Toomey

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.
‐‐ Andre Previn

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.
‐‐ Peter Zumthor

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
‐‐ Kenneth L. Pike

When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues.
‐‐ Robert Zoellick

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
‐‐ John Dryden

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
‐‐ Carre Otis

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.
‐‐ Bram Fischer

When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

When I cook, it's something nobody else would enjoy.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

When I cook, my brain stops completely.
‐‐ Dino De Laurentiis

When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

When I create a character, I do it with the directors, and I take their notes and try to have my notes meet in a common ground. I don't create characters myself, and I don't really think that's my job. I'm not a prep person at all - plus, I'm just a lazy procrastinator.
‐‐ Keir Gilchrist

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.
‐‐ Susan Campbell Bartoletti

When I create a character, particularly my central character, I want someone who is interesting and feels real and who might have quite a few virtues but is unlikely to be perfect, who hasn't necessarily made all the right choices.
‐‐ Nick Earls

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
‐‐ Joey Skaggs

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.
‐‐ Shigeru Miyamoto

When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - 'bedraggled.'
‐‐ Jean Patou

When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.
‐‐ Evelyn Lauder

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
‐‐ Ella Maillart

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.
‐‐ Rihanna

When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.
‐‐ Shelley Duvall

When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.
‐‐ Charlie Sifford

When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
‐‐ Yael Naim

When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway - I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.
‐‐ Johnny Gimble

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
‐‐ Loretta Lynn

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.
‐‐ Kenneth Oppel

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.
‐‐ Katherine Jenkins

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!
‐‐ Susannah McCorkle

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
‐‐ Audre Lorde

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
‐‐ Harrison Birtwistle

When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I decide to become a mother I will just be that. That will be really important to me.
‐‐ Katy Perry