When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary…

The moment I got to France, I fell in love with it.

— Melody Gardot

I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.

— Shaquille O'Neal

“In contemplating who should command the Army’s multiplying regiments and divisions, Marshall and his training chief, Lesley J. McNair, kept a list in a…

— Rick Atkinson

In college, one of my favorite classes was a six-week class watching horror movies. 'The Bad Seed' was one of them and was the…

— David Leslie Johnson

Somehow, while I wasn't looking, I fell. And I fell hard.

— M. Leighton

I sort of fell into acting.

— Colin Donnell

We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was…

— Valerie Jarrett

“Everything fell apart in me. How are things with you?”

— Jack Kerouac

I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs…

— Isabel Allende

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to…

— Jess Walter

I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love…

— Tom Bosley

Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014.

— Janet Yellen

Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of…

— Farnaz Fassihi

By the gift of God, WWE fell into my lap.

— Dana Brooke

My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why…

— Banks