Math was a two-part exam and I once didn’t go for the second part. I knew I’d done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade. – Rob Brydon
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have done some things that I’m very proud of. I don’t think you can say any more than that, really. – Robin Trower
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. – Samuel Johnson
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world. – Richard Le Gallienne
I like leaping around on stage as long as it’s done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits. – Ritchie Blackmore
I gave ’em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing. – Richard M. Nixon
The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I’ve written about a lot. – Salman Rushdie
I’ve done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I’m not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but I am convinced that the Stratfordian William Shakespeare was not. My feeling is that it was an amalgamation of many writers, in the same way that most films are a collaborative endeavor. – Rhys Ifans
I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so many times. I felt I had nothing to do. I used to irritate the cameramen. – Ram Charan
Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we’re always going to involve everybody. When I look at ‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,’ I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it. – Raekwon
No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it. – Ring Lardner
When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That’s how they were always done. – Robert Rodriguez
I’ve done the big 12-city tours, and I’m never going to do that again – never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know. – Ruth Rendell
Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we’ve done enough by way of change. – Richard Ben-Veniste
For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done. – Richard J. Needham
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections. – Robert Dale Owen
The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks. – Raghuram Rajan
I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill. – Ted Deutch
If I’m remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that’s plenty. – Sidney Poitier
