My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
William Gilbert
Recitation: by Male by Female
When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
Andre Rieu
FatherAudienceSomethingSawHe
My straight friends accept I'm gay but they forget that some people don't. Even now, if I go into a party, people don't usually assume I'm gay, so you have to keep coming out. And if you say you've got a film with a gay subject matter, you can sometimes see people's eyes going, 'Oh! OK!'
Andrew Haigh
EyesPeopleFriendsYouGayParty
If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'
Robert Krulwich
EyesYouWantListenWriteRadio
I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.
Anna Friel
LifeCharacterMyselfDayMeJudge
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
Anna Jameson
AspireSenseSomeEarnestly
I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
Tom Cruise
WorkMoneyChoicesYouDoneNothing
That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence - the nightlife, the hotels, lack of privacy... There's a lot of temptations out there. It was nice getting away from it.
Mike Schmidt
BaseballEnvironmentRock StarNice
From the way that we build cars or going after space travel, I get excited about the transportation space because it's the second-highest household expense after housing.
Logan Green
TravelSpaceTransportationBuild
I think that life is messy and that human beings are insane.
Josh Tillman
LifeThinkMessyHumanInsane
A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.
Christian Dior
StyleInterestingCountryOnlyIdea
I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.
Clayton M. Christensen
BusinessSchoolYouDoneFirstSee
I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.
Clay Aiken
JobWantNeverTakeWhereSomething
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