Weren Quotes

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.