Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Patrick Shanley

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

Richard Lewis

It wasn't the kind of comedy I was a big fan of. I used to do a monologue on the Division of Motor Vehicles, and it was like six or seven minutes long. They had to follow me from beginning to end. I did a routine about buying a blender at a drugstore. It was about seven or eight minutes long.

It was beginning to look like a ghost town in there. I figured they weren't caring too much about it and were just letting it go.

It was disappointing. A lot of stores told us that when they opened at 7 or 8 in the morning with special deals good for two hours, crowds were beginning to mass. But at the stroke of 9, when those sales were supposed to end, the crowds disappeared like a snowflake in the palm of your hand.

Jerome Charyn

It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.

It was fun in the beginning. Now it's a major chore. But if I weren't doing it, I would have been out of business years ago.

It was cut down and that was the beginning of the turning point.

It was doomed to fail from the very beginning because it's a double standard, because it provides exactly the wrong incentives. It provides incentives for snoops and snitches under this policy.

Laura Hillenbrand

It was so demoralizing to lose my body and begin to realize that my whole future may be set on its ear. The thing that helped me was, instead of spending my life thinking about how I can get over (CFS), now I spend my life thinking about how to get around it, and how to succeed in spite of it.

It was the first real sign that oil prices are beginning to hurt, not at the petrol pump, but for industry.

Laurie Lee

It was the end of a semi-feudal life and it was also the beginning of one's own life.

It was them out-hustling us. They did from the very beginning of the game.

It was straight up and down, and it began to spin faster and faster and faster.

It was so well received, and people have really such a strong memory of that movie. As people have begun to see Dreamer, they recognize how different they are but how great they both fit together in a way.

It was so sloppy in the beginning. We couldn't get anything in line or order and that's not how we play.

Clint Eastwood

It was sort of the beginning of celebrity in a way. They felt the heroes were all the people who died over there. They felt terrible about being singled out.

It was the beginnings of what would later become electric blues and eventually become rock and roll.

Michael Chabon

It was the beginning of youth culture and pandering to youth culture, ... In that, the comic book publishers were definitely pioneers.

It was the beginning of the game ... not at the end. So we weren't going to freak out about it.

Wes Craven

It was the beginning of the end of my affiliation to the church,

Cameron Diaz

It was respect all around, ... Coming from the top, beginning with Curtis. It was the best working experience I've ever had. It definitely inspired me to look fresh at my career and the direction I want to go. In fact, I made a big decision: I want to make all my movies with Curtis.

It was really hard to pick out the people that we had to take, ... A lot of the elderly that we picked up were begging and pleading for us to go back and get their families. That was the hard part.

It was really hard for me at the beginning of the season. I just wanted to do so much for this team. Coming back from my injury, I just wanted to do a little too much. I was trying to push, push, push.

Johan Bruyneel

It was a very hard stage today. There were four third category climbs in the beginning part but in the last part, it all came back together. We knew it was a good finish for Max as it was slightly uphill at the finish.

It was a very good weekend for us. It feels good to be 7-2 right now. If you told me at the beginning of the year that this is where we would be after nine games, I would have said we'd take that.

Rick Adelman

It was a really solid win. At the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth we tightened it up defensively.

It was a really difficult game for us. You could tell that the other team was fresher than us. However, we outworked and outperformed them in beginning of the second half.

It was a really difficult game for us, ... You could tell that the other team was fresher than us. However, we outworked and outperformed them in beginning of the second half.

Yvette Girouard

It was a productive day at the ballpark. After a shaky beginning I thought we settled down and played some good defense. It seemed like we had a mini-hangover from last night and was very uncharacteristic of this team. We have a great opportunity early in the morning to play another very good opponent.

Martina Hingis

It was a tough match in the beginning. But I was very focused and concentrated.

It was awesome. We made a real strong run at the beginning of the fourth and it was nice to see. They worked hard.

It was a very surprising number and very harmful for the bond market, given a number of Fed officials have been warning about rising inflation. We could be at the beginning of a gradual increase in CPI, which may lead to some insurance in the form of a rate hike by the Fed.

Kate Warne

It was a very strange day, I think. Thursday the market hadn't bothered to listen. Today, they listened, ... We saw some profit-taking because things have been moving (up) so much. As people begin to get nervous about whether we'd see higher rates and exactly how fast things would grow, they were pulling some money off the table.