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Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
William Shatner
Life
Business
Nothing
Later
Out
Nobody
Major
Know
Knows
Although
Anything
McGill
Then
Much
Found
University
The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
William Stafford
You
Yourself
Lost
Distracted
More
Like
Person
Getting
Going
Where
Much
Found
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
William Taylor
Wine
Preserved
Honey
Bacon
Morals
Like
Nor
Cured
Improved
Cells
Hanging
Sea
Found
I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?
Willie Aames
Death
People
Christ
Say
Out
Scared
See
Mentoring
Wonder
Get
Them
Teaching
Who
Found
Jesus
Jesus Christ
We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And I found that many of the old people on my reservation didn't know who was president. That kind of pointed out to me the irrelevance at times of who is in Washington.
Winona LaDuke
Me
Rights
People
Old
Reservation
President
Interview
Out
Kind
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Lawsuit
Pointed
Had
Know
Go
Times
Old People
Who
Many
Washington
Found
I just did what I found interesting. I was so lucky that I was able to do that, especially in the '90s. I was really able to have a life to go back to.
Winona Ryder
Life
Back
Able
Go
Did
Just
Interesting
Really
Lucky
Found
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill
Myself
History
Better
Will
Past
Consider
Write
Propose
Part
Parties
Leave
Much
Found
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.
Wole Soyinka
Depression
Future
Me
Every
Others
Meet
Mine
Way
Bit
Out
Seek
About
Come
Talk
Felt
Were
Left
Same
Pessimism
Who
Found
Acute
I always found myself feeling that happiness rises and frustration trickles down. If the people at the top are frustrated, then everybody down the line feels that. But if the people at the bottom are happy and fulfilled, then they do their jobs a little better, and it goes up that way.
Wyatt Cenac
Happiness
Myself
Happy
People
Frustration
Better
Feeling
Down
Everybody
Top
Way
Jobs
Rises
Bottom
Feels
Always
Line
Up
Goes
Frustrated
Little
Then
Fulfilled
Found
I think, with any topical show, it's very easy to find yourself caught up in the news cycle, and working at 'The Daily Show,' I definitely found myself in that, where we would be talking about the last 24 hours.
Wyatt Cenac
Myself
News
Daily
Yourself
Think
Topical
Definitely
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Find
About
Hours
Talking
Caught
Up
Very
Any
Where
Working
Cycle
Show
Found
Daily Show
Last
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
Yann Martel
Life
You
Big
Style
Young
Cities
Restaurants
Thrilling
Anonymity
Got
Big Cities
Array
Same
Endless
Suspects
Tiresome
Which
Usual
Found
Museums
The Arabic world was very interesting in the 1920s to '60s: there was something booming culturally, and I found my culture very desirable when I listened to these songs.
Yasmine Hamdan
Culture
World
Booming
Arabic
Something
Songs
Very
Listened
Interesting
Found
Desirable
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
Yayoi Kusama
Art
Home
You
Book
Old
Country
Books
Find
About
Had
Countryside
Impressed
Georgia
Very
American
Shop
Information
Old Books
Little
Avant-Garde
Much
Really
English
Found
Her
If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.
Yemi Osinbajo
You
Man
Money
Church
Will
Earning
Our
Everywhere
Says
Civil
Civil Servant
More
Steal
Allowed
He
Him
Houses
Does
Salary
Up
Account
Than
Did
Hold
Public
Midst
Should
Measure
Found
Servant
I had no lasting physical trauma nor a psychological one. Yet, it was hard to return to the old path. I found myself asking big questions: Why was my life spared? What is my purpose here? And it led me to a life of inquiry.
Yossi Ghinsberg
Life
Myself
Me
Path
Old
My Life
Big
Lasting
Inquiry
Physical
Purpose
Had
Return
Nor
Led
Questions
Big Questions
Psychological
Spared
Asking
Hard
Trauma
Found
Why
Here
Every time I found an egg to eat, or when I survived a storm in which trees were collapsing all around me, I felt that it was Providence. I don't need to believe - I know.
Yossi Ghinsberg
Time
Me
Believe
Every
Trees
Every Time
Collapsing
All-Around
Eat
Know
Around
Felt
Were
Providence
Survived
Egg
Storm
Which
Found
Need
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
Zahi Hawass
Saying
You
Will
Inscription
Crocodile
Eat
Eaten
Touch
Protected
Hippopotamus
His
Person
Wanted
Mean
Really
Means
Found
Tomb
Tombs
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
Zahi Hawass
Culture
Single
Lost
Has-Been
Object
Civilization
Come
Piece
Material
Been
Found
Interpreted
Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
Zahi Hawass
Needs
Important
Statue
Statues
Some
Restoration
Features
Had
Weighs
Between
Most
Parts
Were
Close
Five
The Most Important
Which
Granite
Many
Found
Four
Tons
'The Terminator' is grounded in so much realism. It's again a story that centers around a woman that isn't a 'woman's picture' necessarily. I found it really thrilling, both 'Terminator 1' and '2.' When you watch it it's such fine storytelling.
Zal Batmanglij
You
Woman
Picture
Fine
Thrilling
Both
Terminator
Around
Story
Centers
Again
Realism
Storytelling
Much
Really
Grounded
Found
Necessarily
Watch
In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. He's done everything for me and I owe him the world.
Zara Phillips
Me
You
World
Our
Relatively
Everything
Mine
Find
Horse
Lifetime
He
Sport
Him
Very
Owe
Done
Lucky
Found
Early
Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
Zeljko Ivanek
Wish
Neglected
Critically
Admired
Both
Like
Audiences
Oz
Bigger
Really
Found
Homicide
Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
Zhang Xin
Me
Ways
Out
Scholarships
Encouraging
Very
Quickly
Get
After
Place
Landed
Turned
England
Found
Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.
Zhang Zhidong
Teacher
Nature
Religion
Law
State
Our
Earthly
Point
Could
Prince
Sincerity
Without
West
Norm
Heaven
Human
Establish
China
Agree
Found
Ever
Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
Zhang Ziyi
Me
Suits
Rare
Absolutely
Absolutely Not
Perfectly
Because
Domain
Acting
Found
Utterly
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
Zig Ziglar
You
Before
Rejection
Unknown
Hundreds
Those
Slips
Tell
Willing
Thousands
Authors
Stories
Gamble
Who
Found
Publisher
Rejection Slips
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