Famous Quotes & Sayings

Slash

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Angie Martinez

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

Abigail Washburn

I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

Emma Caulfield

I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.

Mario Cuomo

I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'

Henry Bessemer

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

Oliver Cromwell

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Fritz Sauckel

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

Hugh Shelton

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

David Gross

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

Edgar Mitchell

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

Olesya Rulin

I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.

Willie McCovey

I had talked for years about doing a restaurant with Rocky Dudum, who's been my friend since I first came to San Francisco. Then Rocky's son, Jeff, said he wanted to design it, so he traveled around the country to sports restaurants like Mickey Mantle's and Michael Jordan's, and he came up with a great concept.

Gregory Peck

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Tommy Mottola

I had the chance to work with Michael Jackson who was as brilliant as they come.

Alan Kay

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

Genevieve Gorder

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.

Wayne Knight

I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.

Ralph Bakshi

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

Diane Paulus

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

Faith Ringgold

I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.

Paul Anka

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

Katey Sagal

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

Gerard Butler

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

Beatrice Wood

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

Kirsty Gallacher

I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

Peaches Geldof

I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary.

Nigel Kennedy

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

Ayelet Waldman

I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

Chris Isaak

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

Rebecca De Mornay

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

Lucas Till

I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.

Tim Hardaway

I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that.

Duke of Wellington

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Wallis Simpson

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

Gary McCord

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

Rick Baker

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

Sky Ferreira

I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Peter Max

I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.

Nick Hanauer

I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity when you know what you know about 15-year-old boy behavior. But in 2018, we'll have self-driving cars, and it will be so much better. My son may be the last generation of kids who learns to drive.

Jeremy Renner

I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

Nathan Fielder

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

Vijender Singh

I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

Jimmy Cliff

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.

Stephen Bayley

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

Nader al-Masri

I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

Steve Vai

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

Teena Marie

I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.