My List Quotes

#1. Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore."
Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.

Jim Butcher

#2. I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.

Susan Minot

#3. Don't you have someone else to harass? People to eat?"
"Nope. You're at the top of my list."
"Well, aren't I special?

T.L. Reeve

#4. Your children are French-born citizens," the policeman said. "You may leave them here. They're not on my list.

Kristin Hannah

#5. I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bridge too far.

Robert Powell

#6. As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.

Martin Scorsese

#7. Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.

Cynthia Nixon

#8. Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.

Brandon Stanton

#9. I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable.

Chris Solinsky

#10. Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!

Kim Richards

#11. I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

Talulah Riley

#12. My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.

A.R. Rahman

#13. The opportunity to work with women who are at the top of my list of people I'd want to work with and who are my favorite women to watch on screen, was fantastic.

Chris Hemsworth

#14. I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

Jennifer Grey

#15. Once, I started listing off all the people that I truly cared about. When I got to number seven, Penelope told me I either needed to whittle down my list or stop making friends immediately. My mother says you should never have more people in your life than you could defend from a hungry rakshasa.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

James Goodnight

#17. I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.

Carmen Ejogo

#18. There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.

Joan Collins

#19. Now I can add prostitute to my list of life's accomplishments.

Augusten Burroughs

#20. I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list

L. H. Cosway

#21. It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

Rutger Hauer

#22. I want to do some things before I have children, because when I have children it's not going to happen. I've done bungee jumping, I've done the running with the bulls, I guess sky diving is the last thing on my list.

Heather Mitts

#23. I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know ... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.

Kim Gordon

#24. If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.

Robert Barry

#25. I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.'

Jimmy Fallon

#26. I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.

Tahyna Tozzi

#27. At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial ... like being thankful for my Louboutins.

Christie Brinkley

#28. All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

Maureen Corrigan

#29. Maybe I'll remove dying from my list of tasks to do this week.

Brandon Sanderson

#30. My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

Rachael Ray

#31. Are you unwell? You aren't going to vomit on me, are you?"

"That wasn't on my list of planned activities for the afternoon, no, but if you really insist, I suppose I could try for a hairball or something.

Katie MacAlister

#32. I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#33. I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family's had to suffer for that, that I haven't done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon.

Josh Alan Friedman

#34. And what is it with these fucking people and teenage virgins anyway? Have they ever actually shagged one? I have, more than once, and none of the encounters would appear on my list of sexual highlights.

Christopher Brookmyre

#35. Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me
happy.

Rebecca Stead

#36. I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

Madeleine Albright

#37. The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

Mark Zandi

#38. I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

Carlton Cuse

#39. My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

Polly Berrien Berends

#40. 'Modern Family' is one of my favorite shows on television right now. I just think that show is so brilliantly done. It's so fun, I love it. Eric Stonestreet I could just sit and watch forever. They're all great. That would be on the top of my list.

Joanna Garcia

#41. Israel was always on my bucket list, it was always one of those places that you check off and move onto the next place, but I'm never going to check Israel off my list. It's a place I'm always going to want to come back to.

Lana Parrilla

#42. If I measure each day by my list, the days are not always very good, but when I look at each day like it is their day too, because it is their day, well, then most days are better. A lot better.

Ashlee Gadd

#43. In my lifetime I have learned, among other things, not to overcook
veal and never to forget a woman's name the morning after. On that day I
added another little ditty to my list: never blow up a dead whale with
dynamite.

Ute Carbone

#44. The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#45. You're wicked smart. And cool. And drama free, which is a huge deal. Drama free is at the top of my list these days. You can be intimidating."
"Me? But I'm a Hufflepuff.

Penny Reid

#46. I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies grows long!'

Ronda Rousey

#47. Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy - and if I'm not, I don't know the difference. Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be - that's much more important than just being happy.

Bob Dylan

#48. I'm not saying you didn't deserve it, O." Dakota laughed. "But I'm restocking the karma bank and you're at the top of my list.

Carolyn Mackler

#49. Golf isn't first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I'm tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#50. Riyadh or Sharjah weren't exactly high on my list.

Manil Suri

#51. Being butchered by monkeys is pretty low on my list of ways to go.

Brandon Mull

#52. My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.

Mike McCready

#53. I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ron Paul

#54. My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#55. I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

John Cleese

#56. I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

William Cowper

#57. I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.

Rhys Darby

#58. Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.

Terence Lewis

#59. I don't practice yoga, but it's on my list of things to try again. I gave it a shot, but the class was too advanced for me, and I felt overwhelmed and a little embarrassed.

Mike Colter

#60. I have people trying to kill me. A giraffe is low on my list of disturbances.

Janet Evanovich

#61. I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot.

Ryan Guzman

#62. I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.

Pamela Anderson

#63. Having a mental breakdown is not on my list of things to do today.

Marissa Meyer

#64. The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.

Billy Collins

#65. At the top of my list for terrain that I hate navigating through, it is definitely the mangrove.

Joe Teti

#66. When Coach asked for my list of desired characteristics in a mate, I gave him you

Becca Fitzpatrick

#67. What kind of world had I descended into that nearly getting rapped had fallen to the bottom of my list of concerns?

Denise Grover Swank

#68. I'm a tone-deaf siren, a wallflower at the mating dance. And I do wonder why men can't want me for me. I'm smart, I don't defer, and I didn't put making babies number one on my list of priorities.

Arthur C. Clarke

#69. I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

Dermot Mulroney

#70. Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."

Edward Young

#71. I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

Kristen Wiig

#72. Well alright then," His eyes glittered. "I get my kicks whipping woman I have sex with and you're next on my list. Now I'm going to take a shower.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#73. I want to feel good more than I want to check accomplishments off my list.

Danielle LaPorte

#74. I don't deserve you. I'm not made for relationships. I know I'm going to fuck this up. I'm going to drive you away or do something to hurt you, and you'll be added to my list of people I screwed over. You should walk away now.

M.A. Stacie

#75. I started making my list, my good things list, when I was 11, and I should probably cross a few things off, but that's harder than you'd think.

Rainbow Rowell

#76. The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I'm doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.

Kristin Armstrong

#77. Went to the grocery store, got everything on my list and went up to the checkout. I put a bag of pet food for our rabbit on the conveyor. The girl looked at me and said, Do you have a rabbit? I looked at here and said deadpan, Nope. Just like 'em 'cause they're crunchy. Here's your sign.

Bill Engvall

#78. My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Bjorn Borg

#79. You're not dead.
I'm not dead.
Why? How?
Dying wasn't on my list.

Alex Adams

#80. Tonight, I want to curl up with a good book and visit my fictional boyfriends. Now let me tell you, my list is long. I am the equivalent to Hugh Hefner, but instead of bunnies I have this ever-growing list of male characters that have stolen my heart. I

Kat T. Masen

#81. If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.

Tori Spelling

#82. I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Lemony Snicket

#83. I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

Gwen Stefani

#84. So you stay, you don't tell anyone, is that it?"
"Sure," Della Lee said easily.
"That's blackmail."
"Add it to my list of sins."
"I don't think there's room left on that list," Josey said as she took a dress from its hanger. Then she closed the closet door on Della Lee.

Sarah Addison Allen

#85. Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.

Kate Moss

#86. Just so you know, I hate camping. I'm not so much appreciating the fact that there's no bathroom out here. 'Nature calls' while walking in nature is on my list of least favorite things. You tigers, and men in general, have it so much easier than us girls.

Colleen Houck

#87. There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

Trevor Dunn

#88. I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back.

Joey Comeau

#89. All right, roger that. Don't get dead." "That's high on my list of priorities.

Evan Currie

#90. If it makes you feel better, though, Basil is the first on my list if we're ever stranded in deep space and forced to eat one another. Aeons are most delicious.

Rachel Bach

#91. Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins.

Dorothy Cannell

#92. Number two on my list is simple. I must say yes to everything for one whole day. Whatever it is and whoever asks it of me.

Jenny Downham

#93. After all the work and lies - and lotion - it took to get me into this parking lot, I'm not going home without more success to add to my list.

Anne Eliot

#94. I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

David Mitchell

#95. The last thing I need added to my list of credentials is 'stabbed by a mattress,' in addition to a cocktail skewer

Amie Kaufman

#96. Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list.

Beyonce Knowles

#97. The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

Edward Jay Epstein

#98. My list of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors became a list of exciting possibilities.

C.D. Reiss

#99. Your G-spot's on my list, pussycat. Now shut the fuck up and let us do our job.

C.C. Gibbs

#100. I'm very Type A; I like to get my list done.

Kerri Strug