Bits Quotes · Page 67

God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes…

— E. J. Dionne

In today's world of blogging and tweeting, conversation has become a bit more staccato. In many ways we're more efficient, but I…

— Indra Nooyi

Of course, like any woman, I look in the mirror and think, 'Oh, wouldn't I look better with a bit of Botox?'…

— Amanda Donohoe

I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a…

— John Noble

I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not…

— Rebecca Goldstein

You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be…

— Frank Shorter

Throughout the course [of Twilight], you get to see a little more of her vampiric side, because I think she's this vampire…

— Ashley Greene

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send…

— Noel Gallagher

I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired…

— Patrick Heusinger

I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like…

— Steve Winwood

When you blow it, God still celebrates His Son in you. The litmus test of whether or not you understand the gospel…

— Matt Chandler

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my…

— Val Guest

Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft…

— Chris Murray

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

— D. H. Lawrence

the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is…

— Lorrie Moore

My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly…

— Cate Blanchett

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

— Anthony Shadid

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

— Michael Snow

Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you…

— Lawrence Weiner

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find…

— Katherine Waterston

I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends…

— Busy Philipps

I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for…

— Nina Conti

I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public.…

— Steve Jobs

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of…

— Eliza Lynn Linton

What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who…

— Margaret Thatcher

Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it's a load of crap but it…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

A lot of people, after seeking a bit, have some experience, and sometimes will believe they're enlightened. One has to be careful…

— Robert Thurman

Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have…

— Judy Garland

When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head.

— Daphne Guinness

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When…

— Chris Rock

I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual…

— Ella Baker

I've actually always wanted to play the character a bit 'off'. I think that could be fun.

— Christopher Sieber

Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of…

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And…

— America Ferrera

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to…

— Laura Linney

Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

I was very, very unhappy with even the so-called very elite schools. The one thing I've always done every day with my…

— Marva Collins

Having gandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you're more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it…

— Terrence Howard

Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think…

— James Fadiman

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why…

— Al Yankovic