The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn’t communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I’d had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: ‘Well, perhaps I can show...

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical...

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world – and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source...

My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.

I give people ‘If You Came Softly’ when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I’m told I have a country accent.

New York came after me aggressively and that’s what sealed the deal.

I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.

Nothing’s really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

I’ve always been a producer – that’s how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made ‘Rush Hour.’ And ‘Rush Hour’ really came out of the fact that I grew up watching ‘Beverly...

The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian ‘parliament’ voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity.

The first win came very quick, and I didn’t know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn’t know what I was doing. I just...

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Working on ‘Raising Hope’ is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don’t just want that time to dissolve,...

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did ‘Kings and Queen’, had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and...

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a...

I was really so excited when it came back on air and I saw all three of the actors who played ‘Doctor Who’ in the new version and they’ve all been absolutely brilliant in their...

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.

When ‘MacGruber’ came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a...

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Joy always came after pain.

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel’s nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15....

Which came first—mind or body?

I think we’ve come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

I’m a bad pessimist. I don’t think about how successful any record I’ve ever done is going to do before it came out.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There’s lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual… They don’t care about anything else.

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, ‘a...

I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings – the projects of New York City – and I worked my way to get to where I am.

I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I’m getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn’t in the script. It was something that I came up with.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced – that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence – it came...

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

I think one of the reasons Stephen King’s stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

I’ve started collecting taxidermy: I’ve got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn’t just killed for stuffing.

I came, I saw, God conquered.

My father’s family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn’t a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Whenever I’d go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he’s asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it’s weird.

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was...

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

No one remembers who came fourth.

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must ‘modernize multilateralism.’

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.