I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation. Anthony Bourdain
I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was. Jonathan Ames
I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series. Jude Deveraux
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. Ernest Hemingway
I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one. Andy Roddick
I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league.Kevin Durant
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. Michael Connelly
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent. Michael Eric Dyson
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. John Steinbeck
I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though. Bob Uecker
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.Lord Chesterfield
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life. Edgar Rice Burroughs
I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so. Larry Holmes
I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.Tom Brady
I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine. Wendelin Van Draanen
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional. Gaylord Perry