Needed Quotes · Page 137

I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow…

— Larry Ellison

Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect…

— Felice Picano

I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I…

— Tom Shadyac

I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me.…

— Michael Lee-Chin

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things…

— Tom Hooper

There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had…

— Adam Lambert

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

— Maurice Sendak

Isn't is lovely to be all together again?" Raffin said, throwing one arm around Po and the other around Bann. -------- She…

— Kristin Cashore

[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day…

— Harrison Ford

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than…

— R. A. Torrey

The less I needed, the better I felt.

— Charles Bukowski

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best…

— Richard Lugar

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an…

— Ayn Rand

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted…

— Pia Zadora

I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. The Klan is needed today as never before…

— Robert Byrd

The Pre highlighted things I needed to tweak. I'm glad I ran there and found the things I needed to tweak and…

— Lauren Fleshman

So many times we say that we can't serve God because we aren't whatever is needed. We're not talented enough or smart…

— Kay Arthur

Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills…

— Assata Shakur

One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

— Julie Powell

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around,…

— Jennifer Weiner

'National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it.

— Thomas Mallon