All Quotes

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
‐‐ Mahalia Jackson

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
‐‐ Boris Becker

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
‐‐ Meister Eckhart

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.
‐‐ Eve Best

When you are up there, feeling infinite space, the earth looks like a fragile planet against the immense universe. We are just another fleeting species, passing by. I do believe there is life elsewhere, and we are not alone. But not having found an alternate place for now, it is crucial to take care of the one place we do have.
‐‐ Guy Laliberte

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.
‐‐ Anurag Kashyap

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.
‐‐ Guy Forget

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.
‐‐ Marina and the Diamonds

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.
‐‐ Louis Malle

When you are working on a TV show or series, you just get into the routine. You get used to getting up early. It takes a few days, but once you are up and running, you get used to going home late, and it becomes this very repetitive cycle.
‐‐ Philip Glenister

When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.
‐‐ Marie Rutkoski

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.
‐‐ Koren Zailckas

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
‐‐ Chad Kroeger

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.
‐‐ Margaret Mahy

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
‐‐ Annette Funicello

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
‐‐ Laini Taylor

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
‐‐ Jermain Defoe

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

When you are young, you are a little naive.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova

When you are young, you are fervent about the things you believe in.
‐‐ Charles K. Kao

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.
‐‐ Pele

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.
‐‐ Helen Dunmore

When you are young your imagination is so clear.
‐‐ Nina Blackwood

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don't have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there's usually someone there to help you do that!
‐‐ Andy Taylor

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
‐‐ Irving Layton

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.
‐‐ Jose Carreras

When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
‐‐ Yogi Berra

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
‐‐ Lara St. John

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
‐‐ Eric Cantona

When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.
‐‐ Ben Chaplin

When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
‐‐ Cameron Sinclair

When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.
‐‐ Andrew Dominik

When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don't feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong with you. I think it's dissatisfaction that the expectation was different than the reality.
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up.
‐‐ Pete Rose

When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.
‐‐ Tom Rath

When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.
‐‐ Tom Rath

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim