About Quotes · Page 55

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world…

— Jesmyn Ward

I guess I want very much to be recognized for my abilities, for the work I put in, and yet it's still…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can…

— Langhorne Slim

Because I can think rationally, I can think cosmically, and I can think about the world scientifically and poetically and the universe.

— Timothy Spall

I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids…

— Beverly Cleary

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

— Clive Barker

I'm more apt to shed a tear than my wife about family matters.

— George Pelecanos

Life is all about the unexpected.

— Vernon Davis

I have come to see what the Tour is about, and it has been harder than I imagined. You don't realise what…

— Geraint Thomas

There was a period of time that I got rather big-headed. It lasted about three weeks.

— David Essex

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

— Shaun King

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go…

— Kelli O'Hara

I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.

— Jane Clayson

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

— James Gray

There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.

— Machine Gun Kelly

We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of…

— Glenn Greenwald

I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And…

— Tony Fadell

You live a life, you have a family, you sing your songs. You do not think about these things. You just do…

— Julio Iglesias

When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot…

— Adrian Peterson

What I like about Kannada cinema is that the stories are realistic, but told in grand, larger-than-life fashion.

— Rituparna Sengupta

The best thing about being 6'9'' is that it helps with my tennis game, especially with my serve.

— John Isner

I was watching 'Space Jam' when I was a kid but that was pretty much the only thing I knew about the…

— Rudy Gobert

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily…

— Stephanie March

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things…

— Anne Hathaway

I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight.…

— Richard Bach