Quite Quotes

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.

Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.

I am quite fussy about clothes.

Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?