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I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seem... JOHN MADDEN If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
ALAN LEWIS Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film,...
PETER WEIR
It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a... TERRY PRATCHETT At first, it was just discomfort. Then as a few minutes passed, it became more than discomfort. It b...
STEVEN SCHROEDER I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis u...
DALE T. MORTENSEN This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, ... BEN E. KING Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone ...
BILL LASWELL
As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolution... JOYCE CAROL OATES
You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Later on it became twice a year, which was too much. I think I would go for it as long as it's once ...
DILIP VENGSARKAR There's no question they were an instant hit. It became, as they like to say in later years, water-c...
DENNIS LEWIN It became almost the biggest event in Montana. If you were coming from Kalispell you had to start ho...
JACKIE ADAMS
Being a star means nothing if you don't have someone to share it with, someone who's going to be exc... CRYSTAL WATERS
I never wanted a championship as much as I did that first one, ... After the first one in 1964, the ... JOHN WOODEN
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrop... SHARON STONE
The first man Adam became a living being. MICHELANGELO And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of th...
ARTHUR ROCK
It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-t... RODDY DOYLE Every Fedora issue became a nail for the foundation hammer, and the scope of the foundation quickly ...
MAX SPEVACK We just happened to catch up with her. It seemed like once we got a hit it became contagious. All th...
DON HENRY
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claus... SHARON STONE I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Op...
LLEYTON HEWITT
Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then. KEVIN JAMES One block became two, two became three.
DONNY DANIELS There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet pla...
GARY BURTON All the behaviors were probably already in place but nascent. They became determined by the properti...
BEKI GRINTER Besides the long hours, it became too hard to maintain a large-enough staff.
NANCY ALLMAN After the first concert, it became the concert you wanted to do, if you were lucky enough. It was ju...
GUILLERMO RESTO
I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
ALAN LEWIS It could be one wave, and two or three months later a different group of people being hit.
LYNN DEJONG
It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ... DAVID CASSIDY It became hard to keep two or three people for meetings, but I believe that when people are gathered...
MARILYN DOBSON The sun rose in my life. At first, as dawn breaking on the horizon, almost as if to say, this is whe...
KARL OVE KNAUSGåRD The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers th...
DAVID ARNER
I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design bec... YVES BEHAR He did not draw me into the movement, but he was in it from the start. He and I had met at my twenty...
JOSEPH HANSEN He was really hesitant at first, but as the year went on, he became a very important part of our tea...
CLIFF THOMPSON I personally became aware of this property three years ago, ... It is a rat hole, it is terrible.
WAYNE ALLEN I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth....
HARI KUNZRU You can hit it with a hammer, and it absorbs the blow.
TOMMY MOE "There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it." (as said by B...
GREEN DAY It became, after the first few days, a recovery effort.
DANNY WHITE When I started binge-watching TV, when that became a thing due to Netflix a few years ago, the first...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN
Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. ...
DAK PRESCOTT She became a very smart player in later years.
DICK BARTHOLDI One of the four seemed grateful, but the other three were aloof. It was just, ho, hum, thanks. See y...
CARL BAUER
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a
healthy man of his bones. But if you br... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We've held up raising ticket prices as much as anyone by competition. But it became clear fares had ...
BARRY BIFFLE
I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly un... LAURA MENNELL
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. GEORGE SOROS
Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with... MERCEDES LACKEY The enjoyment of the game, the glory of the game, sir. Yes, we'd like to win, but if we don't that's...
LEE SLIDER
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. ZIG ZIGLAR and hit it with a hammer.
JOHN ARQUILLA At first, 'Family Ties' seemed to just be a wonderful project of its time. These were the Re...
MICHAEL GROSS
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. UNKNOWN
When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later... JOHN LEWIS When I first said 'The tribe has spoken,' ( Survivor host) Jeff Probst looked at me like I had three...
MARK BURNETT
Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investm... JAMES SUROWIECKI
If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. ZIG ZIGLAR Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career...
JANE GREER
Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you wer... JODI PICOULT I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being a...
JULIA SWEENEY When we were down nine, it became a kind of desperation time for us. But three minutes is a long tim...
ARRON AFFLALO When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ...
OM PURI
The word conscience covers as a matter of fact several different feelings; the simplest of these is ... BERTRAND RUSSELL
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it be... EDWARD GREY 'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books...
NATSUO KIRINO
But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [he... THORNTON WILDER
When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around ... BRENDA LEE I'd been used to working with an ensemble of six boys. When it became three girls, three boys, it ch...
DICK AYOTTE
Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the pris... GEORGE TAKEI
After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boi... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when test...
WALTHER BOTHE
When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few year... DAVID BOWIE
Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as th... MICHAEL GRANT
The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We spent a few hours struggling to come up with better explanations, but each suggestion was shot do...
DONALD G. FIRESMITH I started training with school friends and, one by one, they all dropped out. When we became teenage...
JESSICA ENNIS-HILL
I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words. LEONARD COHEN He became violent and hit the teller with a closed fist and bound the teller as well.
BETTY SCHWAB I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make ...
SANDY KOUFAX He had some stomach pains but he ignored them, being the tough guy that he is. He would think nothin...
ERIK MASSEY My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE An overseer called him a traitor, and Rytlock killed him. That's how he became an overseer. Later, a...
J. ROBERT KING
[Chophouse. It was his descriptions of meat, though, that most concerned Americans. Even President T... UPTON SINCLAIR
YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR In the first three games it seemed like everything they hit that hit the tape rolled over for them. ...
JOE LOIACONO
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pe...
DAVID HOFFMAN It would surprise me if it became a big source (of financing).
MATTHEW SIMMONS Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, ...
VINNIE JONES What this is really telling us is that life is a unified process. It's not just a group of DNA bases...
WEI KONG When I knocked it down, it seemed like I had all day to pick it up. It was a dream play. It'll hit m...
DEWAYNE WHITE
If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her hu... 