Quite Quotes - page 7

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me. (Lisa Marie Presley)
However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight. View quote
Bob Geldof
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play. View quote
Ian McDiarmid
It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth, but not quite. View quote
John C. Reilly
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. View quote
Alvin Ailey
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman. View quote
Ann Beattie
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. View quote
Anna Friel
The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets. View quote
Bruce Boxleitner
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around. (Calista Flockhart)
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. View quote
David Antin
I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure. View quote
Evan Dando
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive. View quote
Geraldine Ferraro
You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor. View quote
Gina Gershon
Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office. View quote
Geena Davis
Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy. View quote
Hugh Shelton
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. View quote
Ken Burns
I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful. View quote
Max von Sydow
No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing. (Michael Bolton)
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being. View quote
Michael Tippett
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends. View quote
Peter Hook
I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling. View quote
Rachel Griffiths
Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald