Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Cage

James Dean was an actor, but he had an amazing legacy in that he became famous for never really growing up, ... He's personified, immortalized as an adolescent character in film, which is fascinating to me. He didn't go into the other areas because he wasn't with us long enough.

Caitlin Ryan

I think the fluidity of gender is the next big wave in terms of adolescent development. Gender has become part of the defining way that youth organize themselves and rebel against adults.

Ruth Pitter

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

Richard O'Brien

I'm very happy to sit in the genre of make believe and fantasy. It's where I'm happiest. It appeals to the eternal adolescent in me.

Joe Simon

I like The Geek, a rag-doll pretending to be human. The Prez, an adolescent in the White House, just like the current occupant.

Agnes Smedley

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

Hugh Laurie

There's the clown in House, there's an adolescent in him, a child, a playful side. There's also a tormented self-destroyer as well. I get the best of all possible worlds.

Steve Erickson

Taking place in some Nordic-looking hinterland where all the seasons are out of whack, 'Game of Thrones' is the most aggressive example since 'Battlestar Galactica' of a genre that's perceived as adolescent aspiring to be fully adult.

Nancy Gibbs

It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

Kathleen Hanna

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Bill Gibbons

I was looking forward to competing against her for years to come. She really was a rising star.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Flip Saunders

Kind of how we've been for 37 games. Different guys lead us over different parts of the game, play unselfish. Thirty assists, eight turnovers, that's kind of where we've been when we win games. I think how we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played through the first half of this season.

Bill Bavasi

Kevin and Fernando are both veteran major league players that we can bring to camp for some extra depth on our team. They have both had health challenges but, if healthy, they will be valuable players for our younger guys to compete against and learn from.

Brian Vereb

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

Lennie Zalesky

Ken's shoulder has been bothering him. He missed practice the last two days, but was willing to go out there. In the end, we just decided against it.

Bill Cowher

I think it does in a lot of people's eyes. To me, it is a lot more about the journey than the final destination.... But in a lot of people's eyes, it is the defining part of a career.

Bruno Julliard

Today is a defining victory but there are still many issues outstanding.

Elijah Wood

It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that will always be a defining moment in my life, a defining time.

Robert Silverberg

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

O. Winston

In terms of defining this presidency, the next several months are critical.

David Esbjornson

Important and defining moments occur in the theatre and in our lives, and this is one of them,

Allan Needell

The federal government was seen as key toward innovation and technological progress, by defining what's essentially civilian, like the space program, as a government endeavor.

Nigel Hawkins

The difficulty is defining where the local loop and the fixed line infrastructure begins. It's a complicated story but I'm really skeptical if any of these reports during the summer silly season will lead anywhere.

Michael Morales

This has been the defining property of this Valley for a long time.

Tom Browning

We're starting to get some fluidity in our offense,

Ben Schott

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Romola Garai

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Sarah Brightman

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

Jenny Shipley

In New Zealand, men and women would not take a party seriously if it did not have a good gender - and increasingly racial - mix. It's not about being politically correct; it's just who we are.

Barack Obama

a judicial philosophy that ignores the possibilities of racial discrimination or gender discrimination, a political philosophy that typically errs on the side of the powerful.

Sheryl Swoopes

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

Katharine Graham

So few grown women like their lives.

Lynsey Addario

Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.

Bernard Pivot

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Dora Murray

All ages, genders and ethnicities are welcome. If you love the theater, join us.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Andray Blatche

It could be next week, next month, whenever I get better.

Charles Flynn

It could be any time. It could be next week or three weeks from now.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Alphonsus Ezeoke

He never administered any medication. He never did. He never organized anything. There is no truth to any allegation. It will come out that all of these things are fabricated.

Robert Caro

I trained myself to be organized,

Viviana Diaz

Pinochet is not as sick as they say. And it has been proved (Friday) with the kind of reception they organized for him.

Ian Mckellen

I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.

Scott Ellis

The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.

Lonnie Donegan

The shows weren't organized at all. They just happened.

Kim Harrison

What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway?

Luke Grimes

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

Steve Murphy

The Legislature wanted a stronger, better organized system of care.

Milan Kundera

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

Pierre Corneille

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

Sharon Horgan

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Mao Zedong

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Katey Sagal

I was very rebellious.

Henri Nouwen

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Han Suyin

Persecution matures young rebels.

John Knox

Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate rebels.

Thomas Sharp

In terms of I-69, it's a pretty bread-and-butter interstate,

Mark Schmidt

In terms of effort, it was there. In terms of execution, it wasn't. Too many turnovers. Too many breakdowns. We had them on the ropes. We just couldn't finish.

James Blake

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Mike Palmerino

In terms of the outlook, there is no significant precipitation in sight.

Ralph Acampora

In terms of the Dow, that's around 7,400-7,500,

Jesse Palmer

In terms of my time, it's not today,

Gia Coppola

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

Dana Rohrabacher

I'm aghast at what American corporations have done in terms of trading American technology.

Camille Strachan

The war may be over in terms of any wholesale demolition.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Van Morrison

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

Jim Hooper

Eventually, the waves get big enough and the Jell-O fails.

Neil Young

Every wave is new until it breaks.

P. G. Wodehouse

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

Paul Wesley

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

Shia LaBeouf

I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.

Elaine Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Adam Braun

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

William Wordsworth

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Willa Cather

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Samuel Johnson

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Marcel Proust

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

Narendra Modi

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Henry David Thoreau

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

James Russell Lowell

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.