Ali Cobby Eckermann Quotes

#1. The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.

Manfred Mann

#2. The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

Phil Klay

#3. It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

Tananarive Due

#4. Race is a biased concept; we are in fact all Africans.

Ben Tolosa

#5. I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

Lin Yutang

#6. A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way.

Tomm Moore

#7. Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

Aubrey McClendon

#8. My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

Robert Englund

#9. Anastasia, you should steer clear of me. I'm not the man for you, he whispers.

E.L. James

#10. Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you

John Lennon

#11. I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

Shirley Maclaine

#12. I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

Julian Casablancas

#13. It was much less frustrating being the pursued rather than the pursuer.

Lorraine Heath

#14. My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything.

Laurence Yep