All Quotes

When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?
‐‐ Djimon Hounsou

When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.
‐‐ Craig Venter

When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.
‐‐ Dean Ornish

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
‐‐ A. Scott Berg

When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.
‐‐ Edward Brooke

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
‐‐ Margaret Sanger

When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending the wage gap, we will help ensure that every child can achieve his or her God-given potential.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand

When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.
‐‐ Charisma Carpenter

When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
‐‐ Hans Zimmer

When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort. Competition is the death knell for anything, in my opinion. Especially in Hollywood. When actors are competing against each other, or when directors are competing against actors, it's usually the beginning of the end.
‐‐ Rocky Carroll

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible.
‐‐ Neil Peart

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.
‐‐ Pete Hegseth

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.
‐‐ Greta Van Susteren

When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
‐‐ Laura Harring

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
‐‐ Maria Callas

When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.
‐‐ Robert Glasper

When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually brought a bit of sunshine to my day. I was thinking: fat suit. I was thinking: shaving my head. It was so outlandish, such a crazy idea.
‐‐ David Harewood

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
‐‐ Kate Mara

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
‐‐ Harriet Ann Jacobs

When my baby was born, I felt like somebody had spiked my drink, and I suddenly was so full of love that it was a little bit as if I was drugged. I didn't think that anyone could feel that way.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Duff

When my back's to the wall, I want to fight.
‐‐ John Caudwell

When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance.
‐‐ Andre Leon Talley

When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn't happy.
‐‐ Jennifer Grey

When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.
‐‐ Liu Bolin

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.
‐‐ Mariska Hargitay

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

When my book was first sent out to publishers, my agent told me to buy a lot of ice-cream and wait. So I bought a gigantic amount of ice-cream, and huddled by the freezer eating it and shaking, hoping someone would like it.
‐‐ Sarah Rees Brennan

When my boys were little, I'd throw so many toys at them, but they didn't want to play with any. Then I'd give them a truck, and they would play for hours. I believe the same thing applies to a consumer - edit their choices, and they will be more intrigued.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

When my brother and me got into performing in the late '40s and early '50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business.
‐‐ Gregory Hines

When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
‐‐ Kate Clinton

When my brother passed away... I made a decision that I might die soon, and if I die, I want people to know who I really am.
‐‐ Leslie Jones

When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around in a quitter.
‐‐ Stephen Colbert

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.
‐‐ Amy Irving

When my career in hotels was taking off in the Nineties, I went to work as a head baker in Cyprus, where I was making Danish pastries every day. I can remember that the head chef was always on my back to put more seasonal fruits in with the creme patissiere. I'd even make them with rhubarb.
‐‐ Paul Hollywood

When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.
‐‐ Estelle

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

When my characters are questioning things, it's not me leading up to an answer; it's me asking those same questions and letting the characters' lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
‐‐ Olympia Dukakis

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.
‐‐ Ezekiel Emanuel

When my children were very young, I was slated to go on a business trip. When it was nearly canceled, I decided I wouldn't tell anyone and go off for a week's vacation anyway. In the end, the trip went off as planned. But I was intrigued by the idea of an illicit holiday.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah