I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do,… — Mark Fletcher Copy Share Image
Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the… — William Bolcom Copy Share Image
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect,… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in… — Michaela Watkins Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run....… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past? — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen. — Wayne Newton Copy Share Image
I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Like, in retrospect, this whole Mini-Album is about itself, and the process of letting go of the fear of what people will… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
