When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out. – Joan Jett
What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way. – Jonathan Safran Foer
When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things. – Ian Thorpe
My first match was against Razor Ramon. I lost. Come to think about it, I lost a lot back in those days. – Jeff Hardy
The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven’t had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears. – Ian Mckellen
There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday. – Jim Henson
My tides were fluctuating, too – back and forth, back and forth – sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this ‘rapid cycling.’ It’s a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a ‘mixed state.’ – Jane Pauley
I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history. – Joe Jamail
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. – J. K. Rowling
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph. – Imogen Cunningham
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement. – Jim Lee
Getting trapped back in the ’80s, it’s almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks. – John Cusack
If you look back, you get stuck in a year. I’ve seen rappers and singers get stuck in 2002 or 2005, and they can’t get out. – Juicy J
All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone. – Issey Miyake
I’ve seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn’t occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don’t feel like going back and dredging them up. – Jhumpa Lahiri
I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. ‘Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing’ was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist in Peter Hatcher. When I reached the fourth grade, I made the leap to science fiction and never looked back. – Jeff Kinney
When Ronald Reagan chose George H.W. Bush in 1980, it was a clear signal that he was running an inclusive campaign; that he welcomed the moderate and even liberal wings of the GOP – there was a liberal wing back then – into his campaign. – Jeff Greenfield
I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves. – Joe Murray
If they played more blues, people would just get it – they try to hold it back but just about can’t hold it back now because the blues is really going. – John Lee Hooker
Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn’t think I could carry his shoes back then. – John Fogerty
It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We’re all dying to win an Oscar. – Jerry Della Femina
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found. – Jami Attenberg
If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we’ll just go back to one. – Jason Bateman