Quotes on Now

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

Author: Aaliyah

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

Author: Bud Abbott

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

Author: Jack Abbott

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

Author: Kathy Acker

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

Author: Jensen Ackles

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Author: Bryan Adams

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Author: Kate Adie

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

Author: Hasil Adkins

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

Author: Trace Adkins

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.

Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

Author: Alan Alda

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

Author: Jane Alexander

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

Author: Lamar Alexander

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Author: Woody Allen

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

Author: Gregg Allman

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

Author: Mohammed al-Sahaf

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

Author: Al Alvarez

I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.

Author: Harry Anderson

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

Author: Kevin Anderson

They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

Author: Ursula Andress

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

Author: Naveen Andrews

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Author: Francesca Annis

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

Author: Francesca Annis

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

Author: Fiona Apple

I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.

Author: Christina Applegate

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

Author: Joan Armatrading

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.

Author: John Ashcroft

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Author: Margaret Atwood

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

Author: Rene Auberjonois

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

Author: Lauren Bacall

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

Author: Sebastian Bach

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

Author: Lester Bangs

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

Author: Russell Banks

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

Author: Albert Barnes

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Author: Dave Barry

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

Author: Marion Barry

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all.

Author: Todd Barry

It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

Author: Jeff Beck

At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

Author: Franz Beckenbauer

I am happier now than I have ever been.

Author: David Beckham

What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.

Author: Kristen Bell

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

Author: William Benet

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

Author: Bo Bennett

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.

Author: Craig Benson

Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'

Author: Robert Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Author: William Blake

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Author: Allan Bloom

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

Author: Andrea Bocelli

I replaced Walsh, I replaced Blackmore, now I just gotta be me.

Author: Tommy Bolin

We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.

Author: Pat Boone

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Author: Max Born

It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.

Author: Zach Braff

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

Author: Billy Bragg

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

Author: Jo Brand

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Author: Richard Branson

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

Author: Rory Bremner

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

Author: Harry Bridges

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.

Author: Richard Briers

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

Author: Susie Bright

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

Author: Susie Bright

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

Author: Sarah Brightman

I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.

Author: Wilford Brimley

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

Author: Charles Broad

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

Author: Matthew Broderick

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

Author: Herb Brooks

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

Author: Terry Brooks

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Author: Louise Brown

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

Author: Ruth Brown

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

Author: Gavin Bryars

Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

Author: Yul Brynner

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

Author: Bill Budge

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Author: Jimmy Buffett

It is too late; now I wish I could live.

Author: John Buford

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

Author: Anthony Burgess

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do.

Author: Delta Burke

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

Author: Ellen Burstyn

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

Author: Judith Butler

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

Author: Scott Caan

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we're playing really tight now.

Author: Matt Cameron

Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.

Author: Jim Cantalupo

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

Author: Eddie Cantor

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

Author: Jennifer Capriati

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

Author: Vanessa Carlton

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

Author: Vanessa Carlton

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

Author: Deana Carter

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.

Author: Helena Carter

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

Author: William Cartwright

The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending.

Author: Neil Cavuto

This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion against their rightful sovereign.

Author: James Chalmers

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

Author: Jimmy Chamberlin

It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before.

Author: Peter Chernin

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Author: Mary Chesnut

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

Author: Anna Chlumsky

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.

Author: Christo

The good old days are now.

Author: Tom Clancy

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

Author: George Clark

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

Author: Patricia Clarkson

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

Author: Patricia Clarkson

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

Author: Clarence Clemons

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

Author: George Clooney

I've been touring now since about '68.

Author: Joe Cocker

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Author: Leonard Cohen

I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.

Author: Sasha Cohen

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

Author: Steven Cojocaru

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

Author: Steven Cojocaru

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Author: Gary Cole

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

Author: Jerry Coleman

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

Author: Jim Coleman

I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.

Author: Jim Coleman

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

Author: Joan Collins

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Author: Phil Collins

How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

Author: Carlo Collodi

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

Author: Jennifer Connelly

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

Author: Sean Connery

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

Author: Mason Cooley

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

Author: Alice Cooper

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.

Author: Tommy Cooper

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

Author: John Corigliano

Old is always fifteen years from now.

Author: Bill Cosby

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

Author: Elvis Costello

Skating is now retro and hip.

Author: Robin Cousins

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

Author: Francis Crick

Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap.

Author: Francis Crick

It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.

Author: Puff Daddy

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: "I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me."

Author: Matt Damon

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

Author: Claire Danes

Yeah, now we publish whenever we feel like it.

Author: Glenn Danzig

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

Author: James D'arcy

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

Author: Peter Davison

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

Author: Robin Day

Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.

Author: Nathan Deal

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

Author: Jack Dee

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

Author: Ted Demme

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

Author: Jackie DeShannon

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

Author: Jackie DeShannon

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Author: Taisen Deshimaru

The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.

Author: William Devane

Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.

Author: William Devane

I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me.

Author: Danny DeVito

I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.

Author: Bruce Dickinson

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Author: Joe DiMaggio

Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.

Author: Marcel Dionne

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

Author: Everett Dirksen

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

Author: John Doerr

The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.

Author: Thomas Dolby

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

Author: James Donald

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Author: Michael Douglas

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

Author: John Dryden