Famous Quotes & Sayings

Travis Barker

I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.

Samantha Bond

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

George J. Mitchell

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

Bruce Boxleitner

I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.

Clifford Geertz

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Rory Stewart

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

Carly Simon

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

Ida B. Wells

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

Scott Weiland

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

Ali MacGraw

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

Beverly Cleary

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Caroline Leavitt

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!

Philippe Perrin

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.

Ajay Naidu

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

Emanuel Celler

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Vincente Minnelli

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

Rob Lowe

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

Reba McEntire

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

Len Wein

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Ron Silver

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

Daniel Clowes

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

Lauren Willig

I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

Yusuf Hamied

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

Corin Nemec

I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.

Emile Hirsch

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

Tom T. Hall

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

Lady Gaga

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Paul McCartney

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

Alexis Arguello

I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.

Marissa Mayer

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

Nellie Bly

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

Robert Crais

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control over the situation. And I wasn't sure I would have any in real life.

Crystal Bowersox

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years.

Charles Krauthammer

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Keeley Hawes

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

Pat Robertson

I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.

Henry James

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Nicki Minaj

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

Mira Sorvino

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

Olivia Munn

I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

Billie Holiday

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

Irene Rosenfeld

I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

Francisco Costa

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...

Will Ferrell

I hate when someone drives my car and resets all the radio presets. I don't understand it. If I was ever driving someone's car, I would never touch the things that were set.

Ray Bradbury

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

Della Reese

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.