A While Quotes

#1. There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

Phylicia Rashad

#2. I've been losing me for a while
my reflection appears partial
as I often feel less than I've been
and further away from the person
I'd like to be.

R H Sin

#3. I've never had anybody produce my records. I've always produced my own records. I've worked with a guy for a while who was an engineer who helped me produce records, but I've always made my own records. I'm a control fanatic. I've got to control everything.

John Mellencamp

#4. He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want ...

Kristen Schaal

#5. At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

Angela Merkel

#6. How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Libba Bray

#7. It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.

Dinah Shore

#8. I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in their own right. They're all complete individuals. They're not just a pick-up band. They all have their own thing going on.

Andrew Bird

#9. For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.

Cath Crowley

#10. I would dream of birds and flora, beasts and cave dwellers. Every childhood night was a broken night. My sister escaped. For a while, my brother did too (extraordinarily).

Abigail George

#11. It's weird because I think of movies like Reality Bites or something, where, even though my life was nothing like that, I hadn't done something contemporary for a while, and it's easier. You do try to make something your own.

Winona Ryder

#12. Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.

Dennis Rainey

#13. An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.

John Updike

#14. I have been involved with the Roundabout for over a decade. Every once in a while, they'd give me a call to participate in a reading or offer me a show.

James Rebhorn

#15. For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

Linda Hunt

#16. My favorite way to unwind is to go for a walk with my husband and the dog at the end of the working day, then we go to our local health club for a swim and to sit by the pool and read for a while.

Jacqueline Winspear

#17. Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together.

Joyce DeWitt

#18. I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

Orlando Bloom

#19. Psst"he called.
The Cyclops lowered his hammer. He turned towards Zeus, but his one big eye had been staring into the flames so long that he couldn't see who was talking.
"I am not Psst"The Cyclops said " I am Brontes"
Oh boy, Zeus thought. This may take a while

Rick Riordan

#20. Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

Dido Armstrong

#21. When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#22. If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

Mario Andretti

#23. I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

Philippe Starck

#24. Every once in a while, a good cry is needed in order to move forward.

Dormaine G.

#25. Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

Margaret Murray

#26. You win a while, and then it's done - Your little winning streak.

Leonard Cohen

#27. Your path will diverge for a while, but do not let that worry you. You have known difficulty before, but you will survive and thrive.

Joanne Guidoccio

#28. I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Mamie Gummer

#29. A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

Katy Mixon

#30. What I do most days matters more than what I do once in a while. That kind of self-encouragement is a greater safeguard than self-blame.

Gretchen Rubin

#31. I'm the happiest I've been in a while.. So blessed and thankful for the future, for release and to finally be happy for those I loved..

Selena

#32. A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.

Matthew Reilly

#33. made Weary sick to be ditched. When Weary was ditched, he would find somebody who was even more unpopular than himself, and he would horse around with that person for a while, pretending to be friendly. And then he would find some pretext for beating the shit out of him. It

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#34. That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

J.X. Burros

#35. After all, they'd be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make.

Wendy Mass

#36. I haven't seen her in a while, haven't returned her calls or stopped thinking about her.

Jonathan Tropper

#37. Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.

Harper Lee

#38. I have a lot of money, many millions some earned and more inherited. What I don't have is a desire to work. I'm not sure where I left it, but it's been missing for a while, and I haven't searched real hard.

David Rosenfelt

#39. After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.

George Clooney

#40. Some of our jokes we made up on the fly. I love Lecrae; we have been friends for a while and he is just one of my favorite people.

Bart Millard

#41. For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

Harold H. Greene

#42. Friends aren't forever. They're not even for a while. They come into your life
and they leave when something or someone changes. Nothing grounds them to you.
Not blood or loyalty. They're just ... fleeting.-Daisy Calloway

Krista Ritchie

#43. Any blisters on your shoulder blades would weep painfully, as the weight of the pack went back on. Then somehow your mind would shut out the pain, for a while. Until, by the end of the march, your shoulders would start to wilt and cramp up as if they were on fire.

Bear Grylls

#44. Let's make the haystack smaller. Let's say for a while, until we can figure out who's coming, who's going, and who's overstayed their visa, let's have extra scrutiny and figure out what's going on, because there's a whole segment of the world that is intent on sending people here to attack us.

Rand Paul

#45. It'd hardly be worth having a brother at all, if you couldn't smack him in the head every once in a while.

Lois Greiman

#46. But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

Melina Marchetta

#47. My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

Clint Eastwood

#48. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Edward Abbey

#49. If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Richard Bach

#50. I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

Randy Harrison

#51. People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Assata Shakur

#52. I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

Lee Norris

#53. She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.

Piper Perabo

#54. Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.

Joan Didion

#55. Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thornton Wilder

#56. I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

Sting

#57. In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, "Oh, the bad guy is really cool." It's fun to be bad for a while, and then that ended really terribly - one piece of advice I'll give to people is your mom is always right.

Melissa Ordway

#58. We all have our demons, and every once in a while, we have to dance with them, embrace them.

Autumn Grey

#59. Hello, Miss Mackay. It's been a while, hasn't it? But then, a man never knows quite when he'll run into you, eh, Kiernan?

Heather Graham

#60. Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.

Madeleine L'Engle

#61. Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

Edmund White

#62. To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#63. I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.

Frederick Lenz

#64. Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

Bobby McFerrin

#65. I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has an important social message. As actors, we have a certain responsibility toward our audience.

Boman Irani

#66. She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone.

Donna Lynn Hope

#67. Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#68. He's taught me everything.
He taught me how to look at things.
He shows me everything there is in flowers.
He shows me how stones are pleasing
When you hold them in your hand
And look at them for a while.

Alberto Caeiro

#69. Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then.

Pete Ploszek

#70. So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting.

Gloria Miklowitz

#71. I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

Peter Fonda

#72. I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.

Denis Leary

#73. After a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.

Alan Brennert

#74. You have my attention.
I know you want a motorcycle or you will think you want one for a while.
Well, I don't have one.
But I have an unusual heart.
And you can have it if you want it.

Jamie Tworkowski

#75. I'm not a vegetarian, and I like filet minion which is sort of a guilty pleasure because I have vegetarian leanings. I eat that once in a while, but generally speaking I like to eat vegetarian things. I really like pasta. I really like bread with olive oil and garlic and I like salads.

Jesse Michaels

#76. Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

Javier Bardem

#77. I doubted whether this work was truly worth something and was thinking of destroying it upon my return, everything we write down, if we leave it for a while and start reading it from the beginning, naturally becomes unbearable and we won't rest until we've destroyed it again, I thought. Next

Thomas Bernhard

#78. I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

Liz Vassey

#79. I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.

Cate Blanchett

#80. I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

Paul McCartney

#81. That's a bit sweeping. Sometimes it takes a while to find out how good or bad something has been.

Sophie Page

#82. I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.

Grace Slick

#83. He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

Robert Kennedy

#84. I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

John Dryden

#85. I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

Jonathan Brandis

#86. After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

Cat Power

#87. I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He'll figure it all out anyway.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#88. I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.

Rose McGowan

#89. Being born into this world involves taking on a conditioned view of identity - for a while at least. We are all conditioned from a very young age to believe that we are separate and incomplete, and that if we could only just get something additional then we will somehow become whole.

Dhyana Stanley

#90. I eat vegetarian. I am just drawn to clean eating, and although I do not deprive myself of sweets or French fries once in a while, my body just feels better if I give it good fuel to work with.

Tricia Helfer

#91. I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Rufus Sewell

#92. Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything," he said. And it was true.

Cheryl Strayed

#93. Sure I find it very liberating and empowering now; but at first, it took me a while to get used to the uncomfortably vulnerable feeling that comes along with being honest.

Steve Maraboli

#94. It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

Coco Rocha

#95. How to Find Your Joylah
1. Try new things
2. Be open to new friends
3. Visit new places
4. Listen to new ideas
5. Remember each day is a new day
6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every once in a while

Elizabeth Atkinson

#96. Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.

Nathan Filer

#97. After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.

George Jung

#98. I'm only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once in a while, when people look at Spock's visage, they might sometimes think of me.

Leonard Nimoy

#99. People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#100. I have been directing and involved in producing and the creating of films for quite a while as well as acting. I always think in terms of what the director needs, and not just for this scene but for the film.

George Clooney