Quite Quotes (996 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Peter Garrett
„I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.“
― Peter Garrett ―
Picture of quotation author John Galsworthy
„He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.“
― John Galsworthy ―
Picture of quotation author Louise Jameson
„I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.“
― Louise Jameson ―
Picture of quotation author Hugh Jackman
„I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.“
― Hugh Jackman ―
Picture of quotation author Stephen Gaghan
„Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.“
― Stephen Gaghan ―
Picture of quotation author Sebastian Coe
„My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track.“
― Sebastian Coe ―
Picture of quotation author Madonna Ciccone
„I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.“
― Madonna Ciccone ―
Picture of quotation author Gary Barlow
„I quite like being who I am.“
― Gary Barlow ―
Picture of quotation author Philip Selway
„When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.“
― Philip Selway ―
Picture of quotation author John Scofield
„It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.“
― John Scofield ―
Picture of quotation author Lucy Lawless
„We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.“
― Lucy Lawless ―
Picture of quotation author Joichi Ito
„For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.“
― Joichi Ito ―
Picture of quotation author Brian Eno
„My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.“
― Brian Eno ―
Picture of quotation author Sherman Alexie
„In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.“
― Sherman Alexie ―
Picture of quotation author George Orwell
„On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.“
― George Orwell ―
Picture of quotation author Jan de Bont
„Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.“
― Jan de Bont ―
Picture of quotation author Nancy Reagan
„I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.“
― Nancy Reagan ―
Picture of quotation author J. Robert Oppenheimer
„Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.“
Picture of quotation author David Johansen
„You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.“
― David Johansen ―
Picture of quotation author Michael Palin
„When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'“
― Michael Palin ―

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