Mine Quotes

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

I don't have a Kate Moss body, but I'm very proud and happy with mine.

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.