Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Richards

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

Ailyn Perez

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

Leonid Hurwicz

I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.

Bill Walton

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

Billy Carter

I had this beer brewed just for me. I think its the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it too.

William Eggleston

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

Ellen Forney

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

Carly Simon

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

Matthew Quick

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

Art Modell

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

Harold Budd

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living

Taylor Spreitler

I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love what I do. If it's something that your parents are pushing you into, it's never going to be rewarding.

George Michael

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

Leslie Nielsen

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

Donald Fagen

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

Earl Campbell

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

Dustin Clare

I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

Brooke Adams

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

David Antin

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

Kiernan Shipka

I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.

Bridget Kelly

I hate bags. I never carry a bag. I am terrified of bags. I don't want to have to be responsible for that many things at one time.

David Bailey

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

Andrew Vachss

I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.

Dolly Parton

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Mickey Hart

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

Stephanie Klein

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.

Neil Cavuto

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Jason Reitman

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

Shelley Moore Capito

I hate raising money. It diverts you from what your real task is: to be a representative. You're diverted into preservation when you really want to spend your time and energy making a better state and a better country - which is the reason you ran in the first place.

Bobby Fischer

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

Bill Lawrence

I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you don't believe any of these characters care for each other. I used to fight with my friends who wrote on 'Seinfeld,' because they had such great pride in saying it was a show about nothing.

Adam Rapp

I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

Brett Ratner

I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Will Durst

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

Bill Hybels

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Sofia Vergara

I hate to work out. I get in a bad mood when I have to do it!

Sergio Aragones

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

Anita Diament

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

Adrian Grenier

I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing.

Ricky Schroder

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

Paullina Simons

I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

Georgia May Jagger

I have a coconut oil stick, which I use for everything - on my eye lids to make them shinier, on my lips, and on any dry skin.

Bong Joon-ho

I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

Gary Numan

I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

Diana Quick

I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I'm a keen walker, and I love Suffolk's big skies.

Maurice Strong

I have a cow's valve in my heart.

Clyde Edgerton

I have a daughter, Catherine, aged 30. I have a 9-year-old son, Nathaniel, a 7-year-old son, Ridley, and a 6-year-old daughter, Truma. I'm 68. The age gap between the younger kids and me is not something I think about much because I feel physically about like I did when I was 40, or at least, I think I do.

Edgar Ramirez

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

Alveda King

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.