Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Sigmund Freud
Margaret Thatcher
George Chapman
Pope Paul VI
Bernard Baruch
Ellen Glasgow
All authors
Today's birthdays
1908 - Leo Rosten
1994 - Lindsey Wixson
1996 - Summer Walker
1979 - Danielle de Niese
1899 - Percy Julian
1969 - Marjorie Gubelmann
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Author
Psychologist
Cartoonist
Businessman
Actor
Businesswoman
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
Started Quotes
Started Quotes
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.
Jo Nesbo
Time
Business
Financial
Economics
Analyst
Nineteen
Brokerage
Administration
Pretty
Both
Knees
Firm
Studying
Leagues
Sure
Became
Stockbroker
Going
Norwegian
Soccer
Worked
Premier
Professional
Played
Player
Started
My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.
Joan Armatrading
Writing
Mother
Piano
Songs
Put
Bought
Front
Just
Room
Started
I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.
Joan Collins
Me
Girlfriends
Faces
Botox
Had
Been
Left
Get
Lips
Even
Started
It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it.
Joan Cusack
Few
Doors
Live
Say
Pretty
Fired
Soon
Opened
Over
Over It
Terrible
Dealt
Roles
Roll
Blow
Movie
Movie Roles
Away
Saturday
Right
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Right Away
Started
Night
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
Joan Didion
Me
Simple
Reading
Those
Something
Rather
Magnetic
Him
Because
Arrangement
Were
Just
Just Something
Sentences
Really
Twelve
Appeared
Hemingway
Eleven
Early
Started
Started Reading
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.
Joan Didion
Myself
Try
First
Other
Once
Would
Write
Failed
Freeze
Pieces
Reader
Always
Up
Than
While
Started
Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.
Joan Didion
Me
First
Direct
More
Pieces
Always
Nonfiction
Doing
Been
Personal
Even
Actually
Started
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten.
Joan Ganz Cooney
Time
Me
First
Reading
Older
Guess
Introduced
Would
Would-Be
Kindergarten
Adult
Had
First Grade
Know
Around
How
Go
Lot
Five
Did
Grade
Just
Worked
Even
Away
Right
Right Away
Started
Started Reading
Sibling
Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.
Joan Lunden
You
People
Gone
Dilemma
Vitro
About
Faces
Through
Know
Terrible
Couples
Talking
Hear
Years
America
Trying
Just
Stories
Them
Many
Now
Why
Right
Started
I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.
Joan Van Ark
Guest
Guest Star
TV
One Thing
Had
New
Knots
Knots Landing
Another
Spots
Got
Doing
Been
West
Led
Up
Commercials
York
Moved
New York
Whim
Packed
Landing
Star
Thing
Started
Plays
I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.
Joan Van Ark
Great
Before
Great Friends
Know
Became
Still
Friends
Michele
Show
Even
Started
My university organised a casting call for a film and I won the role. I played a character who was dying of cancer. I remember in the middle of shooting going, 'Oh my God! Why did I decide to do this?' But people noticed me in it and I started getting invited to castings.
Joanna Kulig
God
Character
Me
People
Remember
Cancer
Casting
Invited
Call
Won
Role
Did
Shooting
Getting
Going
Oh
Oh My God
Middle
Dying
Decide
Organised
Noticed
Who
Film
Why
Played
Started
University
Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of Jazz, but they didn't want me. In Krakow, I wanted to conduct, they didn't want me. And I start to think, 'I have to do something.' In Krakow there was drama and music. I started to study.
Joanna Kulig
Music
Me
Singing
Jazz
Think
Drama
Tried
Classical
Something
Piano
Study
Polish
Go
Yes
Conduct
Want
Wanted
Start
Started
University
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
Joanna Newsom
Harp
About
Years
Years Ago
Fourteen
Started
Playing
The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
Joanna Newsom
You
Recording
First
Singing
Few
Out
Recorded
Voice
Uncomfortable
Weeks
Had
Terrified
How
Am
Hear
Very
Whales
Walnut
Blue
Just
After
Started
When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Science
Happy
School
Girl
Assumed
Too
Secondary
Secondary School
Would
Boy
Domestic
Started
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.
Jock Sturges
Best
First
Birth
Some
Cases
Resulted
Through
Like
Parts
Mothers
Continue
Question
Child
Children
Pregnancies
Pregnancy
Series
Right
Images
Started
I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn't really figure out why. Then I got into college and started messing around with photography, and I realised that it was about getting the images that were in my head out in a way that didn't have to be spelt correctly.
Joe Anderson
Art
Photography
Remember
School
College
Way
Correctly
Out
About
Only
Through
Head
Messing
Around
Got
Doing
Were
Getting
Going
The Only Thing
Realised
Which
Then
Really
Fulfilling
Figure
Found
Why
Actually
Thing
Images
Started
Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.
Joe Cocker
Life
My Life
Chuck
Chuck Berry
Berry
About
Had
Rock
Rock And Roll
Came
Roll
Hitting
Shores
Just
Little
Richard
Little Richard
England
Started
When I first started acting, I was actually working with the National Youth Theatre in London doing anti-knife crime workshops, so I was listening to a lot of music that was around us all the time, around the guys I was working with, and the kids - lots of young grime artists from London.
Joe Cole
Music
Time
Youth
Theatre
Listening
Crime
First
National
Young
Kids
London
Guys
Around
Doing
Lot
Lots
Artists
Us
Working
Acting
Workshops
Actually
Started
We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company.
Joe Gebbia
Home
Pay
Living
Design
Our
Airbnb
Stay
Struggling
Open
Allowed
Sharing
New
Town
Like
Fellow
Because
Rent
Coming
Were
Up
Conference
York
Artists
New York
Decided
Apartment
Room
Us
Across
Many
Company
Living Room
Start
Started
Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.
Joe Gebbia
Good
Made
First
Mistakes
Year
Matters
Own
Our
Considered
Airbnb
Ourselves
Eyesight
Some
Never
Course
Came
Vernacular
Role
Preconceptions
Size
Interface
Designed
Started
When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
Joe Haldeman
Writing
First
Party
Cocktail
Back
Our
Harvard
Kind
Joint
Had
MIT
Department
Working
Started
I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.
Joe Jamail
Me
People
Turkeys
Living
Hungry
Out
More
Deliver
Had
Knew
Know
She
Smoked
Ham
Cousin
Handing
Bunch
Office
Store
Mean
Them
Then
Who
Bills
Bridge
Bring
Started
I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.
Joe Montana
Business
Champion
Management
Harris
Guys
Ventures
Ronnie
Fund
Million
Played
Started
Funds
Two
'Breaking Bad' - when I started watching that show, I thought it was terrific. I love the way it was shot. I love the writing. I love the arc of Bryan Cranston's character. I just thought that was just really, really a wonderful, wonderful show.
Joe Morton
Love
Character
Writing
Wonderful
Thought
Way
Bad
Arc
Bryan
Terrific
Just
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Shot
Really
Show
Started
Watching
Load more quotes
No more started quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About
Because
Always
Any