It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it.… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
When you're first pregnant, you have that 'Wow, I can't wait' and then, by the end of the nine months - which… — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
I, of course, owe everything to my mother, because my father died when I was only nine days of age; and the… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or… — Jake T. Austin Copy Share Image
There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In a normal family, a surprise means presents, cake and a party. For me ? I had no idea. And my family,… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months,… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
You gotta try something people ain't seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a… — Darryl Dawkins Copy Share Image
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous… — Star Jones Copy Share Image
I think these nine months of pregnancy are a gift nature gives you to get you ready to be a mother. You… — Juana Molina Copy Share Image
Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
In all I had 10 operations, nine within six weeks. Then one to remove the rod I had in my tibia a… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I slept with my mother until I was nine years old. It was OK for the first few years, and then I… — Laura Kightlinger Copy Share Image
A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Mayweather likes to say he is better than Sugar Ray Robinson, but I think it is more important for him to keep… — Freddie Roach Copy Share Image
It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady… — Alexis Bledel Copy Share Image
The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight,… — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image