Had Quotes

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

I had tons of friends, played ball with my friends on the street, and did the normal things.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

I think that I've had a very strange life.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.