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.

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.

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.

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.

I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

I don’t know if anything can really prepare you for ‘Survivor,’ but since I grew up as an athlete, the physical aspect came to me more easily.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are...

I’m part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother’s side it’s more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American...

It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so...

I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn’t pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

No one remembers who came in second.

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies.’

I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters… but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world’s greatest living man – Alexander von Humboldt.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Designing came to me. I didn’t have to move.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later,...

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I did the voice of Cyclops on ‘Shrek the Third’. I don’t know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis,...

When ‘Avatar’ came out, we were out non-stop for a year and a half doing red carpet events. I had a stylist who helped me, but it was really hard, and we couldn’t find many...

Our album ‘Show No Mercy’ came out in late ’83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people...

The writing of ‘Topdog’ was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could...

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and...

I saw ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ the week that it came out. My father was a huge ‘Star Wars’ fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I’m the best in the world. I came here for you. You don’t boo me.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the...

I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got...