All Quotes

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.
‐‐ Alexi Giannoulias

When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
‐‐ Abbas Kiarostami

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.
‐‐ David Steinberg

When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave - they say, 'Well, how do I get to do what you do?'... And I say, 'Well, you have to start out by being a failed piano major.' And my point to them is don't try to have a 10-year plan. Find the next thing that interests you and follow that.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.
‐‐ John Kline

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.
‐‐ Michael Gove

When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.
‐‐ Steve Irwin

When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
‐‐ Rachel Roy

When I talk to young people who want to go to Broadway or whatever, I say, 'The highs are very high and the lows are very low and then there is a lot in between.'
‐‐ Liz Callaway

When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
‐‐ Ken Norton

When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.
‐‐ Lee Gutkind

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
‐‐ Dan Quayle

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
‐‐ Alice Hamilton

When I taught, all my best students were women.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.
‐‐ John Sexton

When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.
‐‐ George Lois

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble.
‐‐ Sondra Radvanovsky

When I teach people, I marry them.
‐‐ Sylvia Ashton-Warner

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'
‐‐ Christopher Moore

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.
‐‐ Jim Rash

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
‐‐ John Ortberg

When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
‐‐ David Morrell

When I tell a woman you really need to quit your soul-sucking job, she goes home, and she can tell her husband, 'I need to quit,' and he's like, 'O.K., let's do it.'
‐‐ Martha Beck

When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

When I tell my American counterparts that my budget was $200,000 per episode, they burst out laughing. To us that's a big production, to them it's a guerrilla shoot.
‐‐ Gideon Raff

When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.
‐‐ Johann Rupert

When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed that I can't read.
‐‐ Craig Brown

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'
‐‐ Susan Sarandon

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.
‐‐ Diana Lopez

When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. 'High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college.' But it's true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.
‐‐ Rosalind Wiseman

When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.
‐‐ Imelda May

When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecked novel, they want to guess what they are. Nobody has. There are no characters or timelines in common. They're structured very differently. A good novel wouldn't have pulled apart so easily.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.
‐‐ Phil Klay

When I tell you it's an Under Armour T-shirt, your question should be, 'What's it do?'
‐‐ Kevin Plank

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.
‐‐ Kat Edmonson

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.
‐‐ Alain Prost

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
‐‐ Terence Stamp

When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.
‐‐ Chesley Sullenberger

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.
‐‐ Rafael Palmeiro

When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.
‐‐ Mark Fuhrman

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston