All Quotes

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
‐‐ Marcel Carne

When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.
‐‐ Jim Matheson

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
‐‐ Kate Klise

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.
‐‐ Milla Jovovich

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
‐‐ Bill Moyers

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

When I learned that near Roussillon there were ochre quarries and mines from which was extracted the ore which produced pigments in all the warm hues of the color wheel, I had a substantial artistic link to this region beyond mere love.
‐‐ Susan Vreeland

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.
‐‐ Dan Auerbach

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.
‐‐ Big Boi

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.
‐‐ Rodney King

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!
‐‐ Steven Gerrard

When I leave the country, I'm very, very cautious about what I eat and drink. No vegetables, no fruit.
‐‐ Paula Creamer

When I lecture kids, I say, 'You've got to be ambitious by the advertising - ambitious. You've got to say, 'See, this product? Maybe I can change the world with this product.'' They look at me like I'm nuts, but that's what you can do.
‐‐ George Lois

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.
‐‐ Marilynne Robinson

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
‐‐ Loretta Young

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.
‐‐ Reba McEntire

When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.
‐‐ John Sculley

When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.
‐‐ Chris Riddell

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.
‐‐ Luis Figo

When I left 'Being Human,' that was painful because the show was going on without me. But with 'Him & Her,' we finished on such a high together that if it is the end, it couldn't have stopped at a better time. But I hope with 'Him & Her' that we'll get another crack of the whip: that the writer might change his mind and write some more.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.
‐‐ George Foreman

When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking 'did I want to come back in?', I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right at some point.
‐‐ Colin Cooper

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'
‐‐ Amaury Nolasco

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.
‐‐ Josh Gad

When I left 'Coronation Street,' I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with such a unanimously wonderful company of good people - and I've just come to that good bunch again.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.'
‐‐ Lindsay Hartley

When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

When I left 'Downton Abbey,' it hadn't yet taken off and become the phenomenon that it is, to this day. That all happened after I left. But, it was fabulous to be a part of it and to be a part of the cast. We had an absolute ball!
‐‐ Rose Leslie

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
‐‐ Rufus Sewell

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.
‐‐ Brenda Blethyn

When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.
‐‐ Michelle Ryan

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.
‐‐ Andrea Seigel

When I left for college, my mom really latched on to the dog; She started buying him little outfits and calling him our brother, but that's as far as it got.
‐‐ Jennine Capó Crucet

When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!
‐‐ Ken Hensley

When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.
‐‐ Christopher Rouse

When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
‐‐ Dallas Willard

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.
‐‐ Carmen Laforet

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
‐‐ Patrick Dempsey

When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was not being able to see those people the following day. It was almost like divorcing 40 people.
‐‐ Erin Duffy