Has beens Quotes · Page 56

I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered…

— Bob Goff

I feel like it was a little disrespectful but you know what I feel like, I have been successful, blessed and I…

— Terrell Owens

As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we…

— Mary Robinson

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he…

— Gail Zappa

Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of…

— Dean H. Kenyon

I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company…

— Lloyd deMause

Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which still entirely…

— Jonathan Karl

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public…

— Margaret Mead

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

— Dashiell Hammett

[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.

— Marvin Olasky

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this…

— Dorothy Day

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

— Thomas de Quincey

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what…

— Samuel Johnson

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet…

— E. B. White

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we…

— Jasper Fforde

The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being…

— James E. Faust

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any…

— Christopher Hitchens

I have been a comic book fan nearly all my life. My fascination began as a refuge after my father left because…

— Andrew Aydin

“We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a…

— Jim Morrison

Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.

— Roy Chapman Andrews

For over five years this man [Winston Churchill] has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could…

— Adolf Hitler

Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go…

— Lenny Kravitz

I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics…

— Patricia Piccinini

The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, .…

— Lawrence Stone

Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private…

— Michael Milken