What Did Quotes

#1. Did you ever catch a glimpse of what you could be, if you really tried at life?

Suzanne Hayes

#2. I'm ashamed of what I did, but I'm not ashamed of what I've done to correct my mistakes ... I'm proud of who I am.

Eddie Guerrero

#3. What did that Walt Disney song say? Someday my prince will come? Well, mine came alright ... and I don't think Disney would make a song out of it

D.H. Starr

#4. I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.

Gina Carano

#6. I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be.

Guy Fieri

#7. Clary?" he thought.
Her voice came through, tinged with alarm. "What is it? What's happened? Did my mom find out I'm gone?"
"Not yet," he thought back. "Is Azazel the cat from the Smurfs?"
There was a long pause. "That's Azrael, Simon. And no more using the magic rings for Smurfs question.

Cassandra Clare

#8. What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?

Patrick O'Brian

#9. Ignorance," he rejoined, sounding cross. "You modern people live in your own version of the Dark Ages, dismissing anything you can't understand. If the relic didn't stop him, what the hell did?

Sylvain Reynard

#10. So many whys, whats, whens, whos. Why had Master hurt her so badly? What did it mean? When was this phase over? Who would tell her what to do next?

Lucian Bane

#11. I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

Sandra Bernhard

#12. What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

Annie Leibovitz

#13. Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.

Angelo Dundee

#14. What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

Lawrence Kasdan

#15. It's those who do not have the power to hire and fire who are left with the work of figuring out what actually did go wrong

David Graeber

#16. I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

Harvey Martin

#17. Like many people of limited intellectual scope, Snouty did take what he could do very seriously.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

Jonny Greenwood

#19. If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.

John Podesta

#20. I'll take what's behind door number three did not work too well in the modern justice system, which was all system and no justice.

Kenneth Eade

#21. It was like every man in my life knew exactly what I wanted them to do and then did the exact opposite, just to fuck with me. "I'm

Donna Augustine

#22. It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

Phil Robertson

#23. Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?

Philip K. Dick

#24. What did Dom Perignon say to fellow monks after he invented champagne? ... Come quickly, I am tasting the stars.

John Green

#25. I think that the continuity of what I do as an editor with what I did when I started out 40 years ago is very direct. The delivery system is changing and will continue to, but the actual interaction between publisher and author is exactly the same.

Jonathan Galassi

#26. America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.

Tracy Morgan

#27. I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.

Lisa Edelstein

#28. I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

Jessica Hahn

#29. Dear me, what an unsatisfactory world it was! When one did find a nice kind of life something or somebody always seemed to shove you out of it just as you were beginning to enjoy it.

Hugh Lofting

#30. Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

Tony Wilson

#31. You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

Jacques Pepin

#32. I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.

Mark David Chapman

#33. As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

Harper Lee

#34. Mulder stumbled, and Scully grabbed his arm to steady him. He smiled at her wanly. 'Isn't that what I'm supposed to do?'
'Since when did you ever think I was helpless, Mulder?'
Never, he thought; never.

Charles Grant

#35. The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it ... mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

William Shakespeare

#36. When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

Kurt Braunohler

#37. My family was made of good people who did good things with what they were given. What fairness does life show in a time like this? But life is not fair and that is nothing new, so I bottled the pain and loss, and released them through a single tear rolling down my cheek.

B.M. Tolbert

#38. Yes, I prosecute bastards like him, make them pay for what they did to innocent victims who can't fight for themselves. And every time I win a case, I not only win for the victim, but also for me.

Buffy Andrews

#39. I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.

Paulo Coelho

#40. She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.

Janette Oke

#41. Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did.

Claire Trevor

#42. He thought what she did was horrible, so he insisted on taking the punishment himself, instead of sending another.

Brandon Sanderson

#43. Did people what got killed in a flood expect an apology from God? God did as God wished. You simply hoped to not get on His worse side. Kinda like the bouncer at the club with the pretty sister.

Brandon Sanderson

#44. What the hell kind of family did I marry into?

Triple H

#45. What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.

Yasser Arafat

#46. Michael Cole, what did you get for Christmas? Except drunk.

Jerry Lawler

#47. What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

Max Brooks

#48. We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

George Saintsbury

#49. I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

Anita Roddick

#50. Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!

Joseph Alleine

#51. What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen ...

Rohinton Mistry

#52. Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

Billy Crystal

#53. I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then.

Robert Osborne

#54. But what I did know was that I loved a girl. And I knew I loved her in a way I'd never, ever recover from. I knew I loved her to the very core of myself. And I knew she loved me back.

Mia Sheridan

#55. I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

Mary Gaitskill

#56. Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because that's what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.

Donna Freitas

#57. The Yankees understood what New York understood, that there was no shame in buying success, and maybe because of their lack of shame they did what they did better than anyone in the business.

Michael Lewis

#58. Adante cocked her head to the side. "What did you expect one of the Bahree to be? Intimidating and angry?"
"Yeah, something more like you," he said with a disarming smile.
Adante rolled her eyes. "Very funny.

Jasmine Angell

#59. If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

Brian Tracy

#60. You were an odd little girl."
"You have no idea. What did you and Toyla play with?"
"The skulls of our enemies.

Leigh Bardugo

#61. Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

Earl Campbell

#62. So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can't be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated.

Peter F. Hamilton

#63. So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?
I had a bigger hole to fill.
What do you mean?
A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego.

Michka Assayas

#64. I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?'

Harvey Pekar

#65. You don't feel dead to me."
"That's all that matters," he said, turning his head to look at her. Worry darkened his eyes. "I know this isn't possible. What did you do, Helen?"
"I made you a world.

Josephine Angelini

#66. He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death.
In place of death there was light.

Leo Tolstoy

#67. What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?

Dorothea Benton Frank

#68. What I did at the memorial, was listen.
To the laughter and the tears, and to the quiet stillness that followed.

Nathan Filer

#69. When I first started writing, I did mostly short fiction, and I'd work on a short story and get near to being done and have no idea what I'd work on next, and then I'd panic.

Ann Leckie

#70. Wow. That hurt. Like a lot." Jared's face scrunches up in pain as he struggles to sit. "What did you have for breakfast? A bowl full of steroids?

T.L. McDonald

#71. My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

Pete Townshend

#72. What they did and what they said ... that's their choice, and you are mine.

Anonymous

#73. Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.

Stewart Brand

#74. What am I going to do with ye, Grace? First, ye blacken my eye, and then ye slice me in the thigh." He chuckled. "I bet ye ne'er knew I was a poet, did ye?"
When he felt her hand pat him, he chuckled. "Ye cannae get enough of me, can ye?"
"Pardon?"
"Och, lass. That isnae my thigh.

Victoria Roberts

#75. Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.

William Webb

#76. I watched a ton of cartoons growing up, but I don't remember specifically what networks they were on, I'll be honest. But I did like cartoons as a kid.

Maulik Pancholy

#77. Everyone seemed to think that violence was an acceptable risk and a foregone conclusion for prostitutes, call girls and streetwalkers alike. There was almost an air of, well, what did she expect? What did she expect, indeed? To be allowed to live?

Jeannette De Beauvoir

#78. We drive in silence until I need an answer, "What did he say to you at the elevator?" I look straight ahead when I ask.
"He thanked me for being there for you, even as a boy, when he could not protect you himself. He told me that I had his permission to love you.

Tara Brown

#79. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary's [Clinton] people had something to do with putting them on these evenings because that's what she did to Bernie Sanders.

Donald Trump

#80. I'm not doing a Mulder, there was no character reference-point. I think Mark Buchman shot it very David Fincher, but we did not know what the [X-Files] show was going to be.

David Giuntoli

#81. Like something happened to Preppy. That wasn't your fault, dick slick. It was mine. I literally couldn't dodge that bullet. See what I did there? Oh my shit I'm hilarious.

T.M. Frazier

#82. In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.

R. K. Milholland

#83. Everything I thought I knew about what it meant to be a man was stripped away. What remained was what it meant to be a man who loved a woman as much as I did. To be a human being experiencing this life in all its ugliness, its beauty, its pain and hate; good and evil; love and death.

Emma Scott

#84. What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.

Michael Wolf

#85. The boundaries of my world had shrunk, but I was still alive, and as long as I could go on breathing and farting and thinking my thoughts, what difference did it make where I was?

Paul Auster

#86. Louis-Cesare slowly pulled himself into a half-standing position against the side of the winery.'What? Did you think one little mage was going to do me in?' He swallowed hard. 'Hell, that was just a warm-up.

Karen Chance

#87. What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

Bruce Babbitt

#88. Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.

Daniel H. Pink

#89. What she did to me was bad enough." Ash's silver eyes glittered as he turned back, cold as the moon overhead. "What she made me do, I will never forgive.

Julie Kagawa

#90. I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Leo Tolstoy

#91. The Celtic mind was not burdened by dualism. It did not separate what belongs together

John O'Donohue

#92. I have been lucky and have a tight relationship with my daughter even if I don't see her as much as I did before but it got me thinking about all different women's situations - and what there wouldn't be without us.

Lisa Maffia

#93. Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.

Roger Angell

#94. Can you do me a favor?" he asked. "What's that?" "Shut up and kiss me like you mean it." So I did.

Nick Wilgus

#95. She may know what I am, though," Lorena said.
"Yes, she'll know you're a human being. You don't have to duck your head to nobody. Half the women in this country probably started out like you did, workin' in saloons.

Larry McMurtry

#96. What do you say we go find a hotel near here, have a nice dinner, hot showers and call it a night. I'd like to sleep in your bed, too." "What did you say?" "I said I'd like to sleep in a bed, too." "Oh.

Penelope Ward

#97. Some of us will experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime... I rather have depression that can be treated with a pill and my free will to conquer it; than have a physical illness that results in my demise because no matter what I did I could not conquer it.

Brian Michael Good

#98. The medical term for that is dead. Gee, Magnus, what did it feel like? It hurt. A lot. Thanks for asking.

Rick Riordan

#99. When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.

Nina Jacobson

#100. I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me.

Cheryl Strayed