Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline Lawrence

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.

Matt Doherty

A team is like a child. First it's the infant stage then the adolescent stage. I think we're in the adult stage. Hopefully, we don't revert back to the adolescence stage.

Jennifer Kern

There's been a real big push from the federal government to promote this as the answer to adolescent drug use. The assumption, I guess, that propels this is that once you randomly test students, they'll just stop experimenting. But behavior is really complex. It doesn't always work that simply.

Ben Mendelsohn

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

Simon McBurney

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves.

Richard Smith

Adolescent alienation is going to find a sympathetic ear in Thoreau.

Steve Erickson

Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.

Rebecca Makkai

Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.

Pope John

I urge you to adopt a policy of zero tolerance for all offenders, whether they have abused one child or adolescent or many, whether past, present or future.

Monica Lewinsky

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

Vicki Long

The only reason it became a class is we needed insurance to book these buildings.

Tommy Tuberville

We are proud of Blake Field, ... He became our starter with an hour's notice. He did a great job handling the football.

Sara Labberton

We believe that she had the best of intentions, but that she just became overwhelmed with the number of cats and the cost of cat food and medicine for the cats.

Louie Anderson

One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

Luke Nosek

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

Li Bingbing

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

Mark Harmon

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

Michael Ende

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

Barry Bonds

San Francisco is my home. That's the love of my life right there. Thinking that there could be a possibility, just hypothetically, to go somewhere else and DH or something like that, I really don't want to think about that at this time right now.

Jack London

San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of thousands of refugees.

Al Donner

The San Francisco garter snake is very imperiled, and we're just making progress on getting them back.

Arthur Sterbcow

Think about it. The 'Big One' hits San Francisco tomorrow and ruins most of the housing. Oakland is going to be busy, right?

Gordon Sinclair

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Tom Lehrer

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

Steve Frank

Don't let Leno and his San Francisco friends ruin our children.

Michael Tilson Thomas

But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs.

Mike Scioscia

What Francisco did in 2002, ... was remarkable.

Sarah Santana

We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Glenn McGinnis

We have narrowed it down to those who are providing full financing.

Army Sgt.

When he first signed up, he wanted to go for the full 20 years, but we had to talk him into four. He knew the military, he knew what was involved with it the separation, the risks.

Charles de Gaulle

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

Howie Nielsen

We're sleeping in a hammock with tubes of mosquito netting. It's too hot, too wet and too full of crawly things to sleep on the ground.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Matt Millen

We started off the season with high expectations,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Madeleine Albright

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

William Mosher

Whether the levels (of condom use) are high enough is for others to judge. But I think it's at least encouraging.

Jonathan Davies

When I was in high school, I wasn't a jock, I was into art, drama, and music, and I wore eyeliner, so I wasn't accepted.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

Tom Stehn

It's not into any other whooping cranes right now. When its hormones start kicking into gear, it'll start socializing more and looking for a mate.

JoGayle Howard

They love to go up. Let them climb, their stress hormones go down.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are out of sync, I have no interest in the mirror, and if I do look I think everything is all wrong. Other times, I am quite pleased with what I see.

Alex Rodriguez

When you think about the Space Needle, you also think about Junior rounding third.

Takashi Saito

Until my junior year in college, I was an infielder.

Patrick Mouratoglou

As world junior champion, he has already experienced pressure. And he also has maturity, confidence, experience.

Hank Bontrager

They don't make any money when we're there. They are real friends of junior golf.

Perry Patella

This has been home. Our sophomores and juniors probably won't play here again.

Shawn Taggart

It's OK. I'm not worried about it. I can wait till my time comes. Probably next year or junior year, senior year, whatever.

Paul Taibi

There's been a number of (local) kids that have been picked up by Junior A teams.

Rob Carter

The second one and third one were important to me, but for completely different reasons. It was very important my junior and senior years to prove it wasn't a fluke.

Henry Morris

That's it for me, no more from now on. I'll still be a supporter, always have been, but it's back to the Juniors for me now.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Mike Garcia

It's been rough here down on the ranch, about the driest I've seen it since I moved down here seven years ago. It's rough on the trees. All the pine trees we've been planting are just turning brown.

Rupert Graves

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

Jarret Stoll

A lot of players moved around in the off-season and a lot of teams are better. And we're one of those teams.

Erica McKenzie

They moved the puck well and you can't give that team time to make decisions.

Troy Polamalu

They moved the ball, you know what I mean,

Matthew Wilson

It struck me as unusual when he was moved into a policy role in the first place. It took him out of his natural environment.

bell hooks

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Dominic Cooper

I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Annie Proulx

What we fear we often rage against.

Randy Pausch

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

Lance Morrow

A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage.

Christina Ricci

I don't have life rage anymore.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.

Homer

His descent was like nightfall.

Ned Vizzini

I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

China Mieville

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

Lady Gaga

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Caspar David Friedrich

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

Bob Geldof

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Ray Durham

I told the (team) I'm going to come back. I like everyone here. I like everything about San Francisco.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Alan Kay

I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

Greg Kraft

We feel like Stanford will be the team to beat. We would really like to take them down.

Steve Jobs

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

John Pomfret

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

Brandon Roy

I think he made up for the Stanford game.