Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Samuel Johnson
Josh Billings
Victor Hugo
Paul Valery
Robert Louis Stevenson
Aesop
All authors
Today's birthdays
1824 - Lucy Larcom
1963 - Joel Osteen
1999 - Madison Beer
1957 - Mark E. Smith
1955 - Penn Jillette
1986 - Sarah J. Maas
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Architect
Actor
Astronaut
Designer
Celebrity
Cartoonist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Came Quotes
Came Quotes
Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
Arthur Hertzberg
Culture
Jewish Culture
Starts
Ellis
Jews
Bronx
Classes
Brought
Most
Island
Came
Lot
American
Candy
Middle
Candy Store
Store
Story
Them
Lower
Therefore
Jewish
When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.
Arthur Smith
Me
School
Nine
Everyone
Hook
Laughed
Recompense
Instinctively
School Play
New
Wrote
Terrifying
Doing
Came
Version
Offered
Role
Trying
Any
Eight
Script
Use
Captain
Peter
Peter Pan
Play
Pan
Imagine
When the Emergency was proclaimed at midnight on 25 June 1975, they came to arrest me. I managed to escape by going to a friend's house nearby.
Arun Jaitley
Me
Emergency
House
Arrest
Came
Friend
June
Escape
Going
Midnight
Proclaimed
Nearby
I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.
Asafa Powell
Too
Everything
Bit
Kid
Spoilt
Like
Know
Came
Up
Maybe
Just
Wanted
Growing
Growing Up
I am a bit different from the other sprinters because, I would say, I can run many different ways while the other guys they just came on and they can only run one way.
Asafa Powell
Other
Way
Say
Bit
Ways
Run
Would
One-Way
Guys
Only
Because
Am
Came
Just
Different
While
Many
Different Ways
My dad, he believed in me. My first year was hard for me. I came to the States with myself, and no one came with me.
Asdrubal Cabrera
Myself
Me
First
Year
States
No-One
He
Came
Hard
Dad
Believed
Once this old lady saw me in airport and just kept smiling at me, and after much hesitation, she came and asked me, 'Are you Ram? Can I touch your hair? Is it real?' and I happily obliged.
Ashish Sharma
Me
You
Old
Hair
Ram
Hesitation
Once
Saw
Airport
Touch
Obliged
She
Smiling
Real
Came
Just
Lady
After
Happily
Old Lady
Asked
Much
Your
Kept
When I first came to Chelsea, I couldn't kick the ball, and it was pointless, me playing, really. But I tried to play through the pain for the manager who bought me.
Ashley Cole
Me
First
Pain
Kick
Tried
Through
Pointless
Bought
Ball
Chelsea
Came
Manager
Really
Who
Play
Playing
My mom is the most positive person. She has always had a smile on her face no matter what came her way. After seeing that, I'm not going to let a little cellulite get in the way of my happiness!
Ashley Graham
Positive
Happiness
Smile
Mom
Matter
Face
Positive Person
Way
Seeing
Had
Most
She
Always
Came
Person
Get
Going
After
Little
Her
I tried every diet, from living on cabbage soup to fasting to Weight Watchers, and then came the frozen meals and the shakes. I realized that the more I took care of my body, eating what was good for me, then I felt happy and whole.
Ashley Graham
Good
Me
Happy
Care
Living
Every
Took
Tried
Eating
Shakes
More
Cabbage
Weight
Felt
Came
Soup
Diet
Frozen
Meals
Realized
Then
Body
Whole
Fasting
Two days before I got the audition for 'Extras,' I was offered a theatre role, and I asked my husband, Terry, whether I should take it or not. He said, 'No, wait and see what else comes in.' Lo and behold, along came 'Extras.' Now that was lucky!
Ashley Jensen
Theatre
Wait
Husband
Before
Else
See
Take
He
Along
Days
Said
Got
Terry
Audition
Came
Offered
Role
Behold
Whether
Asked
Should
Lucky
Now
Two
Everything I ever needed came out of a radio and a dashboard. My Mount Rushmore of what was cool came out of a radio - Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Mark Chesnutt.
Ashley McBryde
Mark
Everything
Out
Came
Mount
Patty
Cool
Radio
Ever
Needed
I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.
Ashley Tisdale
Hair
Side
Back
Bit
Out
Color
Hair Color
Feel
Like
Came
Little
Little Bit
Original
Degree actually came to me and asked me if I wanted to be a part of their campaign, and I thought it was just really exciting and important, obviously to my fans, and growing up I had tons of OMG moments. I get to share my own moments through video blogs.
Ashley Tisdale
Me
Fans
Thought
Degree
Important
Own
My Own
Through
Had
Share
Part
Exciting
Obviously
Came
Blogs
Campaign
Up
Get
Just
Wanted
Video
Asked
Really
Moments
Growing
Growing Up
Actually
Tons
I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.
Ashlyn Harris
College
Able
Came
Get
Graduated
Barely
I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces.
Ashoke Sen
Hope
Best
Matter
String
String Theory
Finding
Forces
Came
Offers
Realise
Unified
Us
Theory
What I learned through my research is that the word 'actor,' specifically in reference to those who performed in plays, came about in the late 1500s as a non-gendered word. It applied to all people, regardless of anatomical sex or gender identity.
Asia Kate Dillon
People
Word
Sex
Gender
Research
Late
Those
All People
About
Through
Performed
Identity
Learned
Came
Reference
Regardless
Who
Actor
Specifically
Applied
Plays
'Do the Right Thing' has been a big influence on me. I saw it when it first came out in 1989. I was about 18, and it blew me away on many levels - I had never seen anything like it before.
Asif Kapadia
Me
Do The Right Thing
Seen
First
Big
Before
Right Thing
Saw
Out
Has-Been
About
Never
Had
Like
Blew
Came
Been
Big Influence
Influence
Anything
The Right Thing
Many
Many Levels
Away
Right
Thing
Levels
It was coincidental that 'Housefull 2' and 'Bol Bachchan' came back-to-back. It's not that I have a special affinity for them and so I chose them; they just came my way.
Asin
Way
Came
Affinity
Just
Them
Special
Chose
I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
Me
Thought
Angel
First
Met
Dresses
He
Make
Box
Prints
Came
Michael
Office
Whether
Asked
Should
The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.
Asne Seierstad
Life
Family
Book
Important
Fall
Those
Says
Kind
TV
About
Something
Scenes
Taliban
Came
Family Life
Afghan
Behind
Screen
Stories
After
Happens
The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.
Athol Fugard
Challenge
Beginning
Stage
Faced
Toughest
Had
Knot
Also
Audiences
Came
South
South African
Blood
Trying
African
Stories
Place
Which
Convince
Right
Career
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
Atom Egoyan
Family
Corporation
Ontario
Development
Came
Existence
Planning
Viewing
Film
I had all these raw, gritty rock records that really inspired me sonically, and so I think everything I listen to when I started writing my own songs kind of came out naturally, and it created this new sound.
Aubrie Sellers
Me
Writing
Own
Gritty
Think
Everything
Out
Kind
My Own
Records
Inspired
Had
Songs
Raw
New
Rock
Sound
Came
Listen
Created
Really
Naturally
Started
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
Audra McDonald
Life
Family
Age
School
My Life
Nine
Musical
Musical Theater
High
Classical
High School
Piano
Studied
Performing
Performing Arts
California
Because
Doing
Came
Were
Arts
Theater
Really
Grandparents
Teachers
Started
Sometimes it can be easy to forget where your roots are or where you came from.
Austin Aries
You
Sometimes
Easy
Came
Forget
Where
Roots
Your
Load more quotes
No more came quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About
Because
Always
Any