Famous Quotes & Sayings

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.

Ronan Farrow

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Gladys Knight

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

Kevin Kline

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

Grant Hill

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

Anthony Edwards

I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

Curt Schilling

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.

Susan Powter

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

Frank McCourt

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Gerard Butler

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.

Adolf Galland

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

Kevin McDonald

I had to learn how to drive because I didn't drive in Toronto.

Ray Bradbury

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Charlie Kaufman

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

Sarah Vowell

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

Diego Luna

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

Denise Mina

I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

Travis Fimmel

I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff's always my favorite.

J. Paul Getty

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Harland Williams

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

Lorraine Toussaint

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

Gabourey Sidibe

I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

Hugh Hefner

I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.

Bill Mumy

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

Armie Hammer

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.

Don Henley

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Karine Vanasse

I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.

Jane Green

I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.

Douglas Conant

I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

John Cusack

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

Penny Marshall

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

Chris Cornell

I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than two hours, it just feels strange. It feels early.

Rick Renzi

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

Matthew Perry

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

Bobby McFerrin

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

Suzy Menkes

I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?'

Peter Baynham

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

Frank Black

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

Tommy Shaw

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

Emily Giffin

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

Deepika Padukone

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

Paloma Picasso

I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

Sarah Kay

I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let me jump out of a plane, speak in front of a roomful of strangers, even trek across Siberia.

Lou Ferrigno

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.

Paul Wolfowitz

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.

Ann Richards

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Rowan Atkinson

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

William Boyd

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

Seamus Heaney

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.