(632 quotes found)
“[A little more than a year after the comic entered syndication, it was collected in a book that became a bestseller -- which helped the newspaper client list grow faster.] I was not prepared for the resulting attention, ... Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and the inhibiting quality of feeling watched, I valued my anonymous, boring life. In fact, I didn't see how I could write honestly without it. A year later, I moved out west, got an unlisted phone number, stopped giving interviews, and tried to fly as low under the radar as possible. Of course, some reporters took this as a personal challenge to intrude, but in general, my quiet life let me concentrate on my work.”
Bill Watterson
“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it”
William Shakespeare
“Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.”
Yusuf Islam
“By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.”
Marshall McLuhan
“I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress.”
Michelle Rodriguez
“Once Tyler got thrown to his back there and it became a throw-or-be-thrown match, it was tough for him to recover. He's had a great year and a great career, though, for us. It's just a shame that he couldn't get a medal down here.”
Bill Sexton
“They're very, very structured, ... If they took what they do and became legit, they could be legitimate businessman.”
Bill Powell
“Saturday morning I really decided to leave, when it became a Category 4. When the picture came on with the perfect center (of the storm) That's when you know to leave.”
Andre Haydel
“He became violent and hit the teller with a closed fist and bound the teller as well.”
Betty Schwab
“Some investors say Wal-Mart has become mature. We believe Wal-Mart became stale. We anticipate that a new air of freshness will be evident soon. That's what we expect from Castro-Wright's leadership.”
Bernard Sosnick
