“I'd love to see Sting come back. The guys that had the potential to make any money and draw any money, they came. The ones that made it, made it, and the ones that didn't, didn't. The list of those who made it, theres lots the list of those who didn't make it are longer then the ones who did.” MadeGuyDrawsListsMade It Author:Ric Flair
“I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list.” IfsHardBigsCrossesTasksListsMakers Author:Kate Spade
“I wish I hadn't worked so hard; I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me; I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings; I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends; and I wish I had let myself be happier. It's an extraordinary list of getting in your own way, isn't it?” WayHardFeelingsWishMy FriendsExtraordinaryExpectedListsTrue LifeTrue To Myself Author:Tom Hiddleston
“I went to high school directly across the street from Carnegie Mellon, actually, and I knew people that were a couple of years older than me that went there. I was able to see shows in the drama department, and hang out there little bit, and it just felt like a natural progression. It was at the top of my list.” PeopleYearsLittlesShowsAbleSchoolFeltBitsNaturalStreetsCoupleDramaLittle BitHigh SchoolListsDepartmentHanging OutProgressionCarnegieCarnegie Mellon Author:Zachary Quinto
“My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.” WantYearsMotherGoalVisionMomMy MomLists Author:Kim Kardashian
“If you look at the rights situation - what media companies pay - then you see that the rights prices continue to rise for powerful sports. Now what does that tell you? It tells you that the demand amongst global and local sponsors for these kinds of sports is immense, even if there is controversy attached to them like FIFA - who would definitely be number one on that list, though F1 has also been somewhat controversial.” IfsLooksKindDoeSportsPowerfulNumbersPayCompanySituationRightsMediaDemandListsLocalsImmenseControversyControversialSponsorsFifa Author:Martin Sorrell
“Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list.” WritingSonGrewGrew UpThirdsListsPrioritiesWheelsMy SonMuseLowestMothering Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.” WorldWatchesPhonesLists Author:M.I.A.
“If I were inclined to worry that the United States was veering in a dangerously theocratic direction, here's a short list of things I wouldn't fret about: a reality television program depicting the lives of ordinary Americans; a clause in a contract between parties to a business transaction agreeing that any disputes that arise between them be resolved in compliance with shared religious principles; halal soup; halal turkeys on the Thanksgiving table.” IfsStatesRealityReligiousUnitedPartyPrinciplesWorryUnited StatesTelevisionOrdinaryProgramTablesListsAriseContractsSoupDisputesTurkeysTransactionsComplianceClausesReality TelevisionHalal Author:Sarah Posner
“I always have a ton of projects in mind. On my ToodleDo list, I divide projects into those I'm actively working on, those I'm not doing but believe I will do, and those that sound good, but who knows if I'll ever get to them.” IfsKnowsMindBelieveSoundProjectsListsDivides Author:William Gurstelle
“There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.” IdeasLostTakenListsSteam Author:William Gurstelle
“I remember, and I will never forget, one day - I was six years old and I was playing beside the road and this plantation owner drove up to me and stopped and asked me "could I pick some cotton." I told him I didn't know and he said, "Yes, you can. I will give you things that you want from the commissary store," and he named a huge list that he called off. I picked the 30 pounds of cotton that week, but I found out what actually happened was he was trapping me into beginning the work I was to keep doing and I never did get out of his debt again.” KnowsWantGivingYearsSaidRememberFoundForgetHappenedWeekHugeOne DaySixPicksDebtStoresListsOwnersPoundsNever ForgetCottonSix Year OldsPlantationsYes You Can Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.” MeanDoeStudiosListsSettlingTesting Author:Patricia Piccinini
“The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of a sudden it probably wouldn't even get noticed. People wouldn't be tracking it. The system has cleaned up its act an awful lot but the best-seller list system is not an entirely foolproof thing.” PeopleIfsYearsBookThreeYears AgoSellsListsAwfulThree YearsSellersTrackingBest SellersFoolproof Author:Terry Pratchett
“I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names.” ThinkingLooksWould BeNamesExistenceListsUselessPopeRosa Author:Erich Fromm
“In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.” WantIdeasStyleConflictOrganizationMeetingsListsGet UpAgreement Author:Howard Rheingold
“I think that sometimes you don't have the opportunities for some of the most A-list-type movies, big-budget movies. But I think it's important to keep working and make the best of what's available. Because otherwise, what? Are you just going to get bitter and moan? What does my mom always say? "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."” IfsThinkingDoeImportantSometimesBigsOpportunityMomTypeAvailableMy MomListsBitterBudgetsHeatKitchen Author:Judd Nelson
“I had a list of about 35 restaurants, 25 of which were fast-food joints all around Los Angeles and I didn't get a quarter through the list. It just became me thinking about going to these places and wanting to enjoy the food and food just not being enjoyable anymore.” ThinkingEnjoyListsRestaurantsLos AngelesQuartersJointsEnjoyableFast Food Author:Colin Farrell
“I go to bed every night and the list of what I've accomplished is astounding.” NightBedListsAccomplishedEvery Night Author:Kelly Clarkson
“Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he`s on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.” StatesPolicyTrumpListsLoyaltyForeign PolicySecretaryCompetenceRudy Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.” GivingOpportunityListsChecksBucketsBucket List Author:Ryan Tedder
“I had no idea how many famous people [Andy Cohen] have unintentionally and hilariously insulted of late: Charlie Rose, his cousin Amber Rose, Tori Spelling. . . . the list goes on and on.” PeopleIdeasGoes OnLateRoseListsNo IdeaCousinCharlieInsultedSpellingAmber Author:Anderson Cooper
“When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.” WayCertainBlackHappenedListsUnjust Author:Jay Roach
“[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.” BlackLevelsCommonWrittenIncrediblesListsCommon SenseErasTomsToadsPaineTom Paine Author:Jay Roach
“When Ben Carson said that he would remove all federal funding for universities that had 'extreme political bias.' Who would decide what political bias was, and what is 'extreme'? That kind of policing of ideas has a striking resemblance to the black list, and that's what happened during that era.” KindSaidIdeasPoliticalBlackHappenedUniversityExtremesListsErasRemoveBiasFundingResemblanceBen Carson Author:Jay Roach
“It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.” YearsListsFascinatingGreat WritersSingle Women Author:Siri Hustvedt
“[Ronald] Reagan had an agenda, three agenda items. George W. Bush had some. But [Donald] Trump, because people weren't listening, Trump has the longest agenda item list I have seen in modern American politics.” PeopleThreeModernListeningTrumpListsAgendasItemsAmerican Politics Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience than being on camera. There's just something different about it that's not more fun, but a different sort of fun.” DifferentActorsFunCamerasListsAnimationDifferent Experiences Author:Eric Stonestreet
“Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."” PeopleKnowsMenCountryAmericaFormBlackWhiteAttitudeTeachingWorstBehaviorHatredDeedsListsGuiltyBlack PeopleHonorableWhite ManHistoricMuhammadTry AgainElijahElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Malcolm X
“There was a time when most people had a choice between two kinds of personal communication, handwriting or using a typewriter. Today, people are invited to choose from a list of (surprisingly exotic) typefaces every time they turn on their computer. I think this has made everyone more aware of the idea that picking a typeface is a conscious choice.” PeopleThinkingKindMadeTwoIdeasTodayTurnsChoicesCommunicationComputerConsciousListsInvitedTurn-onExoticTypewritersHandwritingTypefaces Author:Michael Bierut
“Exxon [is one] of the biggest companies in the world. We'll find out whether it's [Rex Tillerson] or someone else on the list and so, listen, it's not a done deal. And it's premature. But I will tell you that I think this person is incredibly talented and could do a very good job as secretary of state.” ThinkingWorldPersonsStatesDoneJobsDealsCompanyVery GoodListsSecretaryGood JobPremature Author:Reince Priebus
“[Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race.” CultureDifferencesRaceListsScorseseSchindlerSchindler's List Author:Denzel Washington
“We were also going to develop relations with the current administration [of Barack Obama], but somehow they did not work out well in key areas and, I believe, not through our fault. I will not list all the problems that emerged in the past few years.” YearsBelieveWellsProblemPastI BelieveKeysAreasRelationFaultsCurrentsWork OutListsAdministrationBarack Author:Vladimir Putin
“If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.” IfsListsSavingReportsMinoritiesSchindlerSchindler's ListSaving Private RyanMinority Report Author:Janusz Kaminski
“I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other films, Munich would be the one that's really, really amazing storytelling.” MeanWould BeFilmWonderfulListsStorytellingSavingReally AmazingMunichSchindlerSchindler's ListSaving Private Ryan Author:Janusz Kaminski
“I think these A-list celebrities that are all lined up for Hillary [Clinton], I think they heard her.” ThinkingHeardClintonLists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.” ShowsKidsCultureWinningParentWatchesHollywoodEntertainmentPopsListsAwardsOscarsPop CultureCaptivatedAward Shows Author:Billy Eichner
“I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.” MenMovingSkillsHighestListsQualifications Author:Carrie Fisher
“I made a career goals list for 2017 and it's so funny. I have low self-esteem or something, so I put both wishes and goals. The goals were things I'm going to do anyway, because I have no choice because my job is to do stand-up comedy so I have to tour and I have to write stuff. The wishes were all things that could be goals. As in, I bet people who have achieved these things called them goals at one point. But I haven't looked at that piece of paper since.” PeopleWritingMadeSelfJobsChoicesWishStuffGoalCareersComedyPiecesSelf EsteemHavensPaperLowsAll ThingsListsEsteemLow Self EsteemStand Up ComedyCareer Goals Author:Jen Kirkman
“I have a list of universal beliefs, and they are amazing beliefs, like, "No one cares" or "You don't care about me"; "I should be successful" or "I'm not successful"; "I don't have enough money"; "I'm too tall or thin or fat"; "I shouldn't have done it" - oh, my goodness, they go on and on and on.” ShouldDoneEnoughCareBeliefSuccessfulGoes OnGoodnessUniversalDon't CareListsFatsBeing SuccessfulTallNo One Cares Author:Byron Katie
“There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.” IfsSaidStatesWantedBlackCasesRecordsHeroMembersLaborDecidedLawyerListsDiscriminationTexasDespiseClientsHousingAlabamaMembershipKu Klux KlanNaacp Author:Nat Hentoff
“I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters. Let's see. First on my list is Sam Gamgee from The Lord of The Rings. Sam is a beautiful character; in him, we find the profound heroism of an ordinary person. He epitomizes the saying that courage isn't not being afraid, courage is going anyway. I just love that.” FirstsPersonsCharacterBeautifulLordFiveOrdinaryProfoundListsRingsInvitesHeroismBeing AfraidOrdinary PersonFictional CharacterSam Gamgee Author:Megan Chance
“Once kids get older, the list is longer. So here goes: Stay out of debt. Sometimes debt is necessary, to buy a home or to get an education, but not to buy a sweater or to eat out.” SometimesHomeKidsDebtListsSweaters Author:Elizabeth Warren
“There are more great guys than jerks, so it's a huge list.” GuyHugeListsJerkGreat Guy Author:Jeff Pearlman
“I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.” PeopleDifferentListsFascinatedQuotationsBorges Author:Susan Sontag
“In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.” YearsIndividualPresidentMissingOfficeArmyIndependenceFinalsSentencesListsNativeActivistPrisonerPresident ObamaNative AmericanOscarsMarineRetiredMarine CorpsChelseaWhistleblowersPez Author:Amy Goodman
“Later, when I was at Caesar's Palace, and [Joe and Gil Cates] were trying to get me to have opening acts for the show, they gave me a list of people, and Rosie O'Donnell was one of them. I said, "I don't really need any opening acts. I have funny stuff in the show, and I do a lot of comedy and stuff."” PeopleNeedsTryingSaidShowsStuffComedyListsOpeningHaving FunPalacesRosieFunny StuffRosie O Donnell Author:David Copperfield
“It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would be on a long list of progressive causes that would be shattered by a Trump win.” IfsLongWould BeAmericaWinningCausesViolenceMovementTrumpGunListsProgressiveShatteredGun ViolenceAnti Gun Author:Chris Murphy
“It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.” PeopleShowsTvsEasierHollywoodRadioLists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's a more experimental album that follows that, which is like Black Magic and While You Were Sleeping. Then there's a return to jazz, For All We Know and Yesterday I Sang The Blues. It wasn't like a planned thing, I just kind of realized it when I made a list of my albums. Like, oh wow, this is exactly what I did before.” KnowsKindMadeBlackSleepMagicReturnJazzAlbumsListsYesterdayWowBlack Magic Author:Jose James