Quotes of: Were Keyword

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

Rupert Murdoch

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

Stewart Copeland

My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

Ted Danson

We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'

Tahar Rahim

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

Willie Stargell

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

Henny Youngman

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

Bianca Jagger

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Zinedine Zidane

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.

Dave Chappelle

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

Jonathan Winters

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

Katy Perry

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

Seth MacFarlane

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Hilaire Belloc

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

Ibrahim Rugova

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

Lech Walesa

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.

Bruce Dern

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Carl Barks