All Quotes

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
‐‐ Samantha Power

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

When it comes down to competition, it's not always about the best skater, it's about who skates the best in that competition.
‐‐ Gracie Gold

When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
‐‐ Diplo

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.
‐‐ Ali Larter

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.
‐‐ David Bowie

When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
‐‐ Dan Bartlett

When it comes down to it, I always played hard for my teammates and I played hard for my coaches no matter who it was, ownership.
‐‐ Troy Brown

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.
‐‐ Deborah Copaken Kogan

When it comes down to it, I just want to work.
‐‐ Colin Hanks

When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.
‐‐ Shailene Woodley

When it comes down to it, I'm kind of a nerdy actor.
‐‐ Janina Gavankar

When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain.
‐‐ Al Michaels

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.
‐‐ Matthew Bourne

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

When it comes down to it, you're playing football regardless of what offense you're in.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we're about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I'm in love when it comes down to the headphones I'm promoting.
‐‐ DJ Khaled

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.
‐‐ Rita Ora

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.
‐‐ David Guterson

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.
‐‐ Jeffery Deaver

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
‐‐ Patricia Heaton

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
‐‐ Tahj Mowry

When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.
‐‐ Hill Harper

When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.
‐‐ Charlie Gonzalez

When it comes to an everyday situation, I am like an ant. I keep putting money aside because I know that if I want to splurge, there is a big mountain of money that I can use.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
‐‐ Tim Burton

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
‐‐ Niels Bohr

When it comes to beach volleyball, we're playing in 100-degree-plus weather.
‐‐ Kerri Walsh Jennings

When it comes to beauty, I feel that hanging with people you love, laughing, and doing silly things gets your spirits up. We are always prettier when we are happier.
‐‐ Sara Sampaio

When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.
‐‐ Roy Blunt

When it comes to belts and rank, I don't care what belt I am; I don't care what rank I am. I'm proud that I've achieved high ranks through some great instructors around the world, but ultimately, the mat doesn't lie.
‐‐ Jason David Frank

When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.
‐‐ Camryn Manheim

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
‐‐ Russell Baker

When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
‐‐ Bill Nighy

When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

When it comes to charities, there's a lot of fraud.
‐‐ Marc Faber

When it comes to chemistry with actors, I always feel chemistry is not something that comes and goes. You either have it or you don't.
‐‐ Jonathan Jackson

When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.
‐‐ Margaret Cho

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
‐‐ Calvin Trillin

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
‐‐ Regina Brett

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.
‐‐ John Conyers