Were Quotes · Page 171

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and…

— Meg White

The team we had, the Hobie Vita-Pakt Super Surfer team, you know, the Hilton boys were on there, Conrad Hilton's grandkids, and…

— Hobart Alter

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in…

— Jacques Barzun

I was called McG since the day I was born because we were broke and there were three Joes in the house.

— McG

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

— Mitch Kapor

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There…

— Rufus Wainwright

You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous.

— Tamar Braxton

When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the…

— Robert Webb

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission…

— Paul Hoffman

I never get tired of talking about 'Galaxy Quest.' I am so proud of that movie. Our only fear was that we…

— Enrico Colantoni

I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were…

— Darren Robinson

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I…

— John Lewis

As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would…

— Heavy D

I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which…

— Mick Rock

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls.…

— Nina Bawden

I went to a Cal Tech party after the 'Facebook' movie came out, and there were kids in dark rooms coding because…

— Kerry Bishe

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that…

— Rebecca Skloot

People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than…

— Alexei Mordashov

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and…

— Janine di Giovanni

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

— Gloria Steinem

I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were…

— Annette Bening

I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find…

— Charlotte Rampling

The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and…

— John Drane

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one…

— Robert T. Bakker

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices,…

— Mike Singletary

Of course there are some models who are not good, but it has been proven that some models can act. Look at…

— Claudia Schiffer

When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go…

— Elizabeth Warren

The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in…

— Virginia Postrel

The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the…

— Julianne Moore

I remember at one time there were 44 mining MPs.

— Dennis Skinner

I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

— John Boyega

I actually thought 'Desperate Housewives' finished very well. I just think there's still stories to be told. I feel like I get…

— Teri Hatcher

Unlike the Contract with America, which was created by Washington pollsters and insiders, Families First was developed from the grassroots up. Congressional…

— Dick Gephardt

I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong.

— Steve Bannon

Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect…

— Neneh Cherry

You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed…

— Jeremy Grantham

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy…

— Amit Bhatia

I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly…

— Hallie Ephron

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England…

— Rachel Cusk

I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was…

— Casey Nicholaw