Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2078.
-
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
Entry in American National Biography -
When I was at my height on TV, I was always busy - rehearsing, practising my impressions, learning new material. When that faded, I had to find another way to be creative. Houses were something to do instead. They saved me.
-
When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.
-
When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'
-
When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.
-
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
-
When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
-
When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!
-
When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than when you show up in a sport coat and a tie.
-
When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
-
When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.
-
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
-
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
-
When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.
Austin-American Statesman, published November 23, 2008 -
When the scenes are written really great, we as actors try not to mess them up by getting in the way.
-
When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
-
When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.
-
When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
-
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
-
When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.
All that-a-way famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 96)
