I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned,… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful… — Moby Copy Share Image
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Pretty early on in making the first movie I realized that this is what I wanted to do. I felt like by… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Once I hit 25, I realized I had to do more than just be an actor. I love acting, but there's something… — Fisher Stevens Copy Share Image
Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny… — Joel Hodgson Copy Share Image
When I was seven, I said, "I want to act." When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you… — Samuel Dash Copy Share Image
I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, "Cats hate water, so why would they… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt… — Lorna Simpson Copy Share Image
I was on Instagram or something, and I checked my tagged photos, and I realized that suddenly they were all LGBT artwork.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past,… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame,… — John Green Copy Share Image
After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized… — Curtis Stone Copy Share Image
When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake.… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor.… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly -… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Humans have always preferred to live their lives by daylight. I used to think it was because human beings have crappy night… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director.… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I… — Kevin Munroe Copy Share Image
I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner.… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
