Top 100 I Did Quotes
#1. The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That's what I did.
Conan O'Brien
#2. I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.
Robert F. Kennedy
#3. MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
Carson Daly
#4. I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.
Kathryn Lasky
#5. Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.
Daniel H. Wilson
#6. Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?
Hedy Lamarr
#7. But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.
John Sebastian
#8. As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."
Daniel Clowes
#9. But peace returns to my heart.
Not peace as it used to be
before it left me years ago. It went away to school,
matured as I did,
and came back looking like me.
Yehuda Amichai
#10. Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
Jerry Seinfeld
#11. I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to find their way down through the maze of trails below the First Summit and they asked us: 'Are you on the trail?' I let my indignity show: 'NO, we're on a CLIMB!'
Andy Cairns
#12. That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not].
Adam Levine
#13. I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.
James McCartney
#14. NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
Jim Henson
#16. Jace shook his head. "I don't care if I did just set myself on fire," he said. "I'm not hugging you.
Cassandra Clare
#17. She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.
Khaled Hosseini
#18. I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.
Avicii
#19. Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?
Joey Votto
#20. When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.
Kenneth Choi
#21. I did theater for fun, and I didn't really think it was anything serious. I met a lot of kids through it, and it was pretty social for me.
David Lambert
#22. Although I was really interested in physics, I think I wanted to do it because I thought it was really hard. I did theoretical physics.
Lenny Abrahamson
#23. Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.
Jenny McCarthy
#25. Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
Loretta Lynn
#26. So I did. I lifted both my hands and put them to both sides of his head and I moved up as I pulled him down to me. Tilting my head at the last second, I pressed my lips against his and I did this hard.
Kristen Ashley
#27. The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.
Joanna Lumley
#28. I got cheered greatly, not because I did well, but because the main point in my part was to look foolish, and I feel that I did that to perfection.
Jon Lellenberg
#29. couldn't just tell her to go to hell and get out of my life. If I did, I felt like I would have no one, and I seemed to continue the hopeless path of trying to please her, make her see my caring for her, get her to acknowledge me or what?
Massimilla Harris
#30. The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.
Ryan Adams
#31. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.
Bruce Lee
#32. A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine's July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.
Joan Smalls
#33. And no one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn't think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn't think I'd do well in New Hampshire. I finished second. And so we went to South Carolina. In a short period of time later, two weeks ago people in South Carolina had no clue who I was.
John Kasich
#35. Well, it's a day-to-day thing. I don't feel comfortable in my body today at all. Any woman will tell you she has her good and bad days and today I did not feel like I looked my best or felt radiant inside or outside.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
#36. I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good!
Darlene Love
#37. It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.
Matt Dillon
#38. He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.
Gail Carriger
#39. If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and him into a hamster (hey, I was rushed!)
Rick Riordan
#40. I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
Shawn Mendes
#41. I thought about my mother, and the words she said to me almost a lifetime ago. That's when it clicked: she had asked me not to settle, to fight for the person I loved, and for the first time, I did what she expected of me. I had finally lived up to who she wanted me to be.
Jamie McGuire
#42. Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
Sally Quinn
#43. Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.
Jodi Picoult
#44. I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
Tiger Woods
#45. I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
John Thaw
#46. In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
Moshe Dayan
#47. When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
Maria Edgeworth
#48. When I was a kid, I read many more Marvel comics than I did DC. As I got older, in high school and then in college, I started reading more DC.
David S.Goyer
#49. I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.
Molly Quinn
#50. I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.
Marco Tempest
#51. I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.
Daniel Ellsberg
#52. I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.
Kevyn Aucoin
#53. I didn't actually have a prom. In Australia, we call them 'socials,' which is hilarious. I did always find them pretty awkward, because I went to an all-girls school.
Robin McLeavy
#54. I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
John Le Carre
#55. I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
Jack Zipes
#56. When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
Erykah Badu
#57. I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
Jack Nicholson
#58. Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.
Jon Lovitz
#59. I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
Fatima Siad
#60. I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
Mara Wilson
#61. When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.
Ray Conniff
#62. I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.
Jake Johnson
#63. Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
Nadia Comaneci
#64. I did steal socks, but I got caught ... don't shoplift, anyone - don't do it! You're just gonna get caught.
Sara Shepard
#65. My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.
Jim Brown
#66. And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.
Claire Forlani
#67. I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.
Whitfield Diffie
#68. Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.
Mark Canton
#69. My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'
Jason Segel
#70. I don't think I have ever worn more outfits over the course of four days than I did Emmy weekend. You barely sleep. You don't eat.
Allison Tolman
#71. I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
Becky G
#72. He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
Alvin Lee
#73. She clucked her tongue at Sergei. "Father, you could have killed me."
"You know I would never do that. If I did, who would fetch my bread from the bakery every morning?
Evelyn Skye
#74. I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
Boz Scaggs
#75. My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.
Michael Mina
#76. I never met a person that I did not want to like
Will Rogers
#77. To the gay community I apologize if I did something, but all I said was I was against same-sex marriage. But I am not condemning you. My favorite expression is, 'Love one another ... as you love yourself, love thy neighbor'
Manny Pacquiao
#78. I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.
Terry Pratchett
#79. Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.
Rupert Grint
#80. I don't need the recognition and I did not expect it.
Terrell Owens
#81. So I did something I've never done, and put your live above my own, because no matter how hard I try to convey it, I'm not heartless. I have a heart and... and it beats for you.
Emma Winters
#82. I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through.
Domhnall Gleeson
#83. To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.
Inge Morath
#84. Although experience has taught me to trust my feelings, I did not go inside to stand guard near her. She had asked me to wait on the bench. I had no intention of crossing her. Like most men, I find it mortifying to be ass-kicked by a woman who doesn't even weigh 110 pounds after Thanksgiving dinner.
Dean Koontz
#85. Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
#86. I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.
Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now.
Claire North
#87. I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.
Fiona Apple
#88. I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.
Graham Moore
#89. At length her hair came loose and whisked my face. I did not mind such blond whips of sunlight.
Daniel Kraus
#90. I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.
John Candy
#91. I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's been hard to keep up with. There's been articles in the papers that say I've got too big for my boots but people who know me say I'm just the same. Things have changed in my life but I haven't, too many people would knock me down if I did.
David Beckham
#92. Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.
Kristen Ashley
#93. I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
Ben Mendelsohn
#94. Yo, man," he said. "You got, like, half a dog hanging off your back bumper."
"Do I?"
"Yeah. Did you drive over it? On purpose, like?"
"No. The Buddha teaches respect for all life." Then, under his breath. "I guess I did shoot a couple though.
Scott Hawkins
#95. I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
Kate Bush
#96. I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
Steve Buscemi
#97. When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
Rube Goldberg
#98. Since I began booking some stuff with no formal acting training I told myself, that I needed to really study to stay in the game for the longevity and I did just that.
Jaime Zevallos
#99. She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.
Carly Patterson
#100. Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.
Herb Ritts
