Afforded Define Quotes

#1. If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.

Nora Ephron

#2. I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

Michael Keaton

#3. I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Patti Smith

#4. Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

Serge Schmemann

#5. I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

Ridley Scott

#6. We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them 'religious'; otherwise, they are likely to be called 'mad', 'psychotic' or 'delusional' . . . Clearly there is sanity in numbers.

Richard Dawkins

#7. Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

William Stanley Jevons

#8. Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#9. Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

Chris Martin

#10. I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

Jhene Aiko