Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tommy Franks

I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation.

Kris Kristofferson

I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

June Carter Cash

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.

Karl Philipp Moritz

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.

Odette Annable

I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.

Heather Morris

I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn't always have a boyfriend!

Owen Hart

I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

Teresa Medeiros

I had a wonderful and very successful career in New York and had the privilege of working with some of the best editors and publishers in the business.

Amy Waldman

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

Thomas Perry

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

David McCullough

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

Satyajit Ray

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

April Winchell

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

Catherine Keener

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

Eric Kandel

I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

Allan Sherman

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

Jack Osbourne

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

Fred Funk

I had never heard of staph until I got it. Didn't really know what was. Still don't really know what it is, but I know you just don't want to have it.

Sanaa Lathan

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Tommy Hilfiger

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

Oprah Winfrey

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Jenifer Lewis

I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.

Eric McCormack

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

Leonard Maltin

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

Burt Lancaster

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

Patrick Carney

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

Roz Chast

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

George Clooney

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

Boris Kodjoe

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

Daniel Johns

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

Mark Ruffalo

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

Ken Bruen

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

Sara Paretsky

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

Dan Gilroy

I had written a script called Freed, which I had wanted to direct.

Suzanne Somers

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.

Morris Chestnut

I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me.

Pauley Perrette

I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.

Johnny Vegas

I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.

Andrea Corr

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

Lenny Bruce

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

Miranda Hart

I hate the fact that we all feel the pressure to go to gyms, have a trainer if money allows, get jogging - all those societal pressures to keep fit and look a certain way.

Noomi Rapace

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

Noel Gallagher

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.

Brandi Chastain

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

Lauren Oliver

I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I put them on. I have a pair of Jimmy Choo flats I would marry, if I could.

Rachel Weisz

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

Earl Campbell

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

Chris Paul

I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

Ben Affleck

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.