I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
~By Frances McDormand ~
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
~By Holly Johnson ~
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.
~By Paul Crouch ~
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
~By Barry Mann ~
I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.
~By Marc Jacobs ~
America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago.
~By Tommy Franks ~
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
~By Faith Hill ~
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
~By Angela Merkel ~
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
~By Bjork ~
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
~By Andrew Vachss ~
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
~By Sally Ride ~
There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.
~By Bill Janklow ~
You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.
~By Brett Hull ~
Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.
~By Kevin Conroy ~
Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for "The Exorcist" interview.
~By Linda Blair ~
I can be inappropriate at times.
~By Leslie Easterbrook ~
Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
~By Jacob August Riis ~
Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.
~By David Hartman ~
We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
~By Ralph Boston ~
I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
~By Eminem ~
Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
~By Harold H. Greene ~
In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
~By Valentino Rossi ~
Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
~By Al Jourgensen ~
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
~By Susan Taylor ~
I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
~By Paul McCartney ~
I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
~By George Sidney ~
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.
~By Jerry Lawler ~
The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.
~By Jami Gertz ~
Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.
~By Little Milton ~
Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
~By Timothy West ~
First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it.
~By Richard Donner ~
I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
~By Anthony Hope ~
The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.
~By Ray Nagin ~
On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.
~By Ric Keller ~
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
~By Charlie Dent ~
There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.
~By Brian Lumley ~
I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.
~By Robin Zander ~
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
~By Ira Glass ~
I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
~By Gus Van Sant ~
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
~By Herodotus ~
Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.
~By Ron Silver ~
Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.
~By Neil Schon ~
At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.
~By David Crystal ~
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
~By Epicurus ~
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
~By Maya Angelou ~
I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.
~By Sue Wicks ~
No one's on at my time but infomercials.
~By Carson Daly ~
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
~By Howard Thurman ~
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.
~By Nuno Bettencourt ~
In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
~By Edward Albee ~
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
~By Margaret Halsey ~
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
~By Henry James ~
Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come.
~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
~By Roy Ayers ~
It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.
~By Sherry Stringfield ~
One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.
~By James Stewart ~
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.
~By Stevie Ray Vaughan ~
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
~By Jim Carrey ~
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
~By Serge Daney ~
Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.
~By John Sebastian ~
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
~By Cedric Hardwicke ~
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.
~By Kim Weston ~
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
~By Janet Frame ~
Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
~By Ann Beattie ~
I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.
~By Brian De Palma ~
My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!
~By Sarojini Naidu ~
Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
~By Simon Travaglia ~
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
~By Marianne Moore ~
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
~By Anne McCaffrey ~
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
~By David Bowie ~
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
~By Charles M. Schulz ~
If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.
~By Brad Henry ~
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
~By Evan Esar ~
I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust.
~By Artie Lange ~
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
~By S. E. Hinton ~
A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.
~By Todd McFarlane ~
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
If I had a nickel for every time I said "Why me?" I'd have probably said "Why me?" more often.
~By Tom Wilson ~
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