Were Quotes · Page 68

We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we were playing…

— Dixie Dean

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were…

— Thomas Mars

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

— Neil Innes

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me.…

— Douglas Wilder

No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses.

— Kevin Mitnick

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

— Mark Twain

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of…

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the…

— Chief Seattle

I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in -…

— Walter Kirn

Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights…

— Geoff Downes

When I sold my first business, I wanted to do something nice for my dad. I wanted to give my parents a…

— Robert Herjavec

We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this…

— Henry B. Eyring

I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I…

— John Roberts

Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people…

— Harvey Pekar

I never set out to make a movie that was everything to everybody; if that were the case, we could all just…

— Shane Carruth

It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made…

— Kathleen Parker

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs:…

— Penelope Mitchell

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

— Val Guest

Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.

— Donald Dunn

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

— Chris Van Allsburg

The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

— Joe Wurzelbacher

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

— Richard Armitage

Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large…

— Jan C. Ting

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

— Pearl Cleage

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were…

— Travie McCoy

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

— Wayne White

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

— Michael Leunig

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was…

— William Bell

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

— Ned Vizzini

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

— Henry Petroski

I grew up in the seventies, and films for us were larger-than-life, masala entertainers.

— Tabu

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.

— Brianna Wu

I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.

— Tom Stoppard

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

— Peter O'Toole

I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives.

— Graham Roberts

I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.

— Sebastian Coe

When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded…

— Travie McCoy

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were…

— Megan Fox