Quite Quotes · Page 41

There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.

— Molly Ivins

It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone's personality.

— Anthony Goldbloom

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

— Desmond Tutu

It can be seen as being quite selfish, but I'm very happy to be selfish.

— Kathy Burke

You have to understand that Singapore is quite different from Mauritius.

— Lee Hsien Loong

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

— Michael Morpurgo

No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.

— Sigrid Nunez

'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.

— Mark E. Smith

I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your…

— Lucy Lawless

Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but…

— Richard Lester

Revisiting 'Leave It to Beaver,' and seeing it in the pristine visual clarity of digital restoration, are mood-altering if not quite mind-altering…

— Tom Shales

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it,…

— Aneurin Barnard

I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in…

— Jessye Norman

If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of…

— Lisa Randall

Overwhelmingly, Israel's political and military establishment want the rest of the world to act diplomatically or otherwise to stop Iran. But if…

— Dennis Ross

It's possible that Generation Facebook, accustomed as it is to a whole range of experiences that it only imbibes online, doesn't have…

— Noreena Hertz

You have the wookie character, which is one of the biggest aliens in 'Defiance.' These guys are just walking about with these…

— Tony Curran

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that…

— Taylor Schilling

Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers.…

— Mary Doria Russell

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from…

— Mark Haddon

More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain…

— Stephen Gaghan

Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata,…

— Martin Jacques

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me…

— Saoirse Ronan

I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

So, my off season, when I'm not playing a lot of hockey, I play quite a bit of golf.

— Auston Matthews

As it turns out, I can see I'm quite a business-minded person as I've developed.

— Judith Durham

I have a little garden, and I quite enjoy fiddling about in it.

— Monica Galetti

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

— Richard Fleeshman

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

— Ben Chaplin

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

— Ferdinand Piech

Anybody who has tried to adopt before knows that it's quite the roller-coaster.

— Buster Posey

No, the mullet's gone, I've have a nice blonde, spiky haircut, but it's quite modern.

— Limahl

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

— Catherine Jinks

I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

— Kate Micucci

I don't know, there's something quite nice about tidying up.

— Harris Dickinson

I've been stabbed by a catfish. They've got quite sharp spines on their pectoral fins.

— Jeremy Wade

Working with Atanu again after 'Mayurakshi' is quite a challenge for me.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

— Hugh Grant

When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite…

— Cheech Marin