Quotes of: Were Keyword

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

Marion Barry

Francesca: What were you like when you were younger? Robert Kincaid: Trouble.

The Bridges of Madison County

There have been times when we've been playing, and people who were sick were totally healed.

Andrae Crouch

Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.

Ashley Madau

When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.

Beth Ditto

Technical staff were fairly good at estimation but were poor at defending their estimates

Work

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

Life

They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.

Ward Churchill

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Will Self

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

William Wilberforce

On Veterans Day, I can't help think of my uncles who volunteered for the service after fleeing a brutal regime in the Dominican Republic. They hadn't been in America long, but they were already so grateful for its opportunities that they were eager t...

Thomas Perez

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

Kenneth Branagh

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

Gabriel Byrne

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

James Lovelock

We were women in transition, raised in one era and coming of age in another, very different time...here we were, entering the workplace in the 1960s questioning--and often rejecting--many of the values we had been taught. We were the polite, perfecti...

The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or the hush of people reading that made the three siblings feel so good as they walked into the room. It is useless for me to tell...

The Austere Academy

The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, spring nor fall. A thermal haze of inexpressible sweetness, though bearing tiny bits of grit or mica, had eased into the Valley from the industrial re...

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

We had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait. All my kin and forebears were people of substantial or remarkable intellect, thought somehow none of them had prospered in the world. Too bookish, my grandmother said with tart p...

Housekeeping

Where were me parents? Where were Becky? I felt so alone, so lost that I could not see. By that I mean, everything round me were a blur, everything inside me were a blur of fear and shock. I heard meself crying and moaning, My oh my, my oh my . . . I...

Into That Forest

I have known a lot of people in my life, and I can tell you this… Some of the ones who understood love better than anyone else were those who the rest of the world had long before measured as lost or gone. Some of the people who were able to look a...

Single Dad Laughing

[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing staggerings and serpentine courses among the men who had partaken too freely; some of the more careless women w...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles