All Quotes

When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.
‐‐ Gary Weiss

When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.
‐‐ Elena Kagan

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.
‐‐ Ellen Key

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
‐‐ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the natural order of things in TV - in life - and is as it should be.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
‐‐ Gabriel Lippmann

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.
‐‐ Jamie Farr

When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.
‐‐ Luke Bryan

When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.
‐‐ Drew Carey

When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.
‐‐ Gillian Anderson

When the show started out, it was like all of a sudden we had to do 35 episodes and we had just a month and a half to write them, and it took me a while to realize that I was in charge.
‐‐ Mike Judge

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
‐‐ Gail Collins

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
‐‐ Matt Groening

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
‐‐ Mark Shields

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
‐‐ Youssou N'Dour

When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.
‐‐ John Otto

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.
‐‐ Elaine Sciolino

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
‐‐ John Otto

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
‐‐ Gerard De Nerval

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
‐‐ John Ortberg

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
‐‐ Yusef Lateef

When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.
‐‐ Jakob Bohme

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

When 'The Sound of Music' aired live on NBC, 18 million people were talking about theater the next day. That's incredible. 'Grease' felt like a chance for me to participate in that landscape.
‐‐ Thomas Kail

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.
‐‐ Alistair Horne

When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
‐‐ Sally Ride

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.
‐‐ Joseph Rotblat

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
‐‐ Tacitus

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
‐‐ Michael Badnarik

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
‐‐ Joe Biden

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
‐‐ David E. Kelley

When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.
‐‐ Anne Graham Lotz

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
‐‐ Plutarch

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!
‐‐ Alma Gluck

When the student is ready... the lesson appears.
‐‐ Gene Oliver

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
‐‐ Holly Near

When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Joni, I admire not only for her music but for her person, because she's a person that really stands out for what she believes in.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock