Top 100 What I Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.
Jim Cramer
#3. The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world.
Wilkie Collins
#4. If they gave me a fortune, My treasure would be small: I could lose it all tomorrow And never mind at all. But if I should lose your love, dear, I don't know what I'd do, For I know I'll never find another you.
Tom Springfield
#5. I'm very authentic, I think, and what I mean by that is whatever roles that I do take on, I'm really passionate about it.
Tia Mowry
#6. My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I say.
Charlie Bell
#7. Here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B ...
John Geddes
#8. I think for me, what I'm doing on set is I'm watching things happen as an audience member and trying to just look at, what's the image we're photographing, how will that advance the story and what will the next image be.
Christopher Nolan
#9. I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.
Laurie Lee
#10. I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.
Shane Carruth
#11. I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.
Tom Heinsohn
#12. I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.
Vincent Gallo
#13. What I really want to do is comedy. I would love to do some guest star spots on some single-camera comedies.
Katie Featherston
#14. My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.
Edith Konecky
#15. When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
Maria Edgeworth
#16. Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.
Tom Jenkinson
#18. [On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.
Margaret Case Harriman
#19. I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?
Bill Ayers
#20. I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.
Cindy Sherman
#21. We all have to hold each other accountable and point that behavior out to each other in a kind way. I guess what I'm saying is just having women behind the scenes isn't enough, we also have to be aware of what we're saying about ourselves.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
#22. What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.
Kurt Browning
#23. Emma Burke is different from anything else.
She's what I'm supposed to have. She's what my first kiss should have been. And she's the only kiss I ever want to remember.
Ginger Scott
#24. There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone.
Lee Hall
#25. I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians ... if we were given that opportunity.
Jack Layton
#26. To be honest with you, I'm not sure what a pop tune is. I'm sure if I hear it on the radio, I'd say that's pop or this or that. But, really, what I pay attention to the most is just music that moves me. It's all at least a root-type music instead of a formula.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#27. What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?
Richard Dawkins
#28. What I've done is far worse than murder - that's an act, a blow, a stab, a shot: it's over and done, but I'm carrying my corruption around with me. It's the coating of my stomach.' He threw her wrists aside like seeds towards the stony floor. 'Never pretend I haven't shown my love.
Graham Greene
#29. It's cruel what I love most about Dylan is the very reason why I can't have her.
Katie Kacvinsky
#30. Please don't cry one tear for me, I'm not afraid of what I have to say.This is my one and only voice, so listen close ... it's only for today.
Shinedown
#31. I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
Emeli Sande
#32. The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.
Ben Schott
#33. From what I've found a lot of people on Facebook are desperate for recognition and social interaction. They want me to find them, to gaze into their lives and notice them. PAY ATTENTION.
Peter Jelen
#34. Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.
Douglas Adams
#35. A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
Louise Penny
#36. I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.
Cynthia Kadohata
#37. Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.
Mae West
#38. When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#39. I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.
Russell Crowe
#40. I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
James Joyce
#41. I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
Fernando Pessoa
#42. Within my reflection I see tears, for what I see is the truth, are my greatest fears.
Atarah L. Poling
#43. I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.
Scott Rudin
#44. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
Liev Schreiber
#45. I can't lie. This - me and you - scares the shit out of me."
I'd be worried if she weren't frightened. "Me too, but wouldn't you rather be scared together than
be miserable apart? Because I know that's what I'd be without you.
Georgia Cates
#46. They're true, aren't they? (Lorelei)
I guess it depends on whom you ask. What I've learned over the years is that truth is never so easy. And every person sees a different reality. (Jack)
Kinley MacGregor
#47. I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#48. I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
Karin Slaughter
#49. I believe in the Bible and I try to follow the Bible. I know I'm an imperfect person, I'm not making myself out to be an angel. Because I'm not an angel & I'm not a devil either. I try to be the best I can and I try to do what I think is right. It's that simple.
Michael Jackson
#50. I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.
Claire Tomalin
#51. I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
Bruno Mars
#52. I have a really strong passion for what I do. I don't see myself doing anything else.
Zendaya
#53. Menstruating doesn't cause pickles to spoil, temples to collapse or food to rot, nor is it contagious, though it would be rather nice to infect the male population with this so-called 'curse' for a month or two, just to sit back and view what I am sure would be a highly entertaining spectacle.
Twinkle Khanna
#54. Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil Diamond
#55. What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a lot, I don't have to learn any foreign languages, and it doesn't shoot in Minneapolis in February. That's mainly what I look for.
Alan Arkin
#56. What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.
Ted Cruz
#57. I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#58. 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
#59. I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.
Herschel Walker
#60. I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.
Kurt Cobain
#61. The only times you say what I'm thinking, it's without any of the sarcasm and therefore the exact opposite of what I mean.
Brian Clevinger
#62. A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel.
Lena Headey
#63. 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
#64. What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal ... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#65. I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
#66. I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.
Kylie Bax
#67. 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
#68. So let me get this straight. You think it is ok to murder a child in the womb, but it's not ok to kill a serial killer." Debater 2: "That's not what I said. I denounce murder in any form, but abortion is not murder.
Suzanne L. Davis
#69. What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'
Marsha Norman
#70. You must understand, wizard. Once you are my Knight, once this last quest of yours is complete, you are mine. You will destroy what I wish you to destroy. Kill whatsoever I wish you to kill. You will be mine, blood, bone, and breath. Do you understand this?
Anonymous
#71. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. it was a conscious effort.
Mary E. Pearson
#72. No matter what, I will always choose practical FX over digital ones. Blood spray pumps and squibs go a long way in convincing the audience that the carnage on screen happens right there, in a manner that digital have not achieved.
Timo Tjahjanto
#73. You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I guess what I've been saying over the past few minutes is that it's hard to do that, to create that.
Will Oldham
#74. Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop."
"What?"
"What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple."
"Raisa, this is getting us nowhere."
"Say it!
Cinda Williams Chima
#75. I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
Wendy Cope
#76. This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.
Sue Monk Kidd
#77. It had given me a bad feeling, though I wasn't sure if it was because I was scared I wasn't going to find him, or scared of just what I might find.
Gayle Forman
#78. What I'm trying to say is that it will be okay between you and Nate. Because you both want that. Because you both want that more than anything. It sounds simple, but I'm learning that the problems start when you want different things
Laura Dave
#79. In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
George Foreman
#80. I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
Shawn Mendes
#81. Let me know what I am able and trust that behind all events no matter how painful there is a reason from which truth can come.
Caroline Myss
#82. I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.
Rahki
#83. I guess my life hasn't always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they'll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen
#84. I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love.
Daphne Oz
#85. Just because I'm telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don't judge my characters.
Vera Farmiga
#86. I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.
Paul Simon
#87. what I like and what I need's two different things.
J.D. Jordan
#88. I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is: we got a start. That to me is a very significant thing. Here we were, a historic meeting to talk about climate change.
Christy Clark
#89. I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's usually what I'm inspired by, what I'm thinking about.
Jon Foreman
#90. I should be suspicious of what I want.
Rumi
#91. At least I know who I am. What I want,
Celeste Ng
#92. Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.
Albert Hadley
#93. Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.
Kristen Schaal
#94. I analyzed the viral genome taken from the patient with the circumferential rash," he says. "It reveals an additional copy of the neural-insertion envelope protein gene. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Ally Condie
#95. You please me, I'll please you. You do what I tell you to do, I'll take care of you. You disobey me or act out, I'll punish you then I'll take care of you.
Kristen Ashley
#96. Lamar is just Lamar. My teammates probably can explain that a little better than I can. If I just go out there and do what I do and be myself, it shouldn't be a problem.
Lamar Odom
#98. You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.
Chris Hillman
#99. Love isn't what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.
Lysa TerKeurst
#100. I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!
Raini Rodriguez
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