All Quotes

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee

When something is troubling me, people know about it.
‐‐ Rachael Leigh Cook

When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.
‐‐ Cloris Leachman

When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
‐‐ Eliezer Yudkowsky

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.
‐‐ Mark Sheppard

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.
‐‐ Bernadette Peters

When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly appear - we might have been working on it for 30 years, but it seems to come out of nowhere. Then you need strategies for engaging a lot of people and thinking about where it will be going in the next few months or few years.
‐‐ George M. Church

When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.
‐‐ Scott Stapp

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
‐‐ Ang Lee

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
‐‐ George Saunders

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.
‐‐ Frank Rich

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.
‐‐ David Ogden Stiers

When something really grabs me, I dive into it.
‐‐ Kiesza

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
‐‐ Florence Welch

When something really matters, you should never give up or give in.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.
‐‐ Norah Jones

When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
‐‐ Dane Cook

When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.
‐‐ Tracy Pollan

When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?
‐‐ Shane Koyczan

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.
‐‐ Jess Weixler

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
‐‐ M. H. Abrams

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.
‐‐ Lisa Kleypas

When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.
‐‐ Michael Chiklis

When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.
‐‐ Shane McAnally

When something you use again and again is on sale, take advantage. This strategy doesn't apply to perishable items, and you don't want to buy so much more than you need just to get a deal, but if you know you're going to use a product eventually, it pays to take advantage of the cheaper price.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.
‐‐ Ludwig van Beethoven

When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.
‐‐ Zac Brown

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
‐‐ Jean Ingelow

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
‐‐ Radhanath Swami

When Spotify launched in the U.S. in 2011, it relied on simple usage-based algorithms to connect users and music, a process known as 'collaborative filtering.' These algorithms were more often annoying than useful.
‐‐ John Seabrook

When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind.
‐‐ Donald E. Westlake

When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.
‐‐ Donald Bren

When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.
‐‐ Barack Obama

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
‐‐ George William Russell

When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men's basketball team - I'm not making this up - before we even had March madness, then you just know that it's just political favoritism.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately dealt a death-blow to dozens of older companies.
‐‐ Eric Ries

When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified.
‐‐ Rob Pike

When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.
‐‐ Stephen Lang

When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.
‐‐ Drew Goddard

When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.
‐‐ Charlotte Le Bon

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
‐‐ Lindsey Buckingham

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
‐‐ Peter Lynch

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
‐‐ Ralph Nader