Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ned Vizzini

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

Kurt Andersen

When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.

Lee Ryan

When I was a kidI liked burning ants with a magnifying glass.but I think that progressed into adulthood where I now believe in aliens.

Catherynne M. Valente

You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.

Mariella Frostrup

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

Caroline Knapp

I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly.

Aasif Mandvi

I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

Octavia Spencer

What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

Sydney J. Harris

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it.

Yoshinori Ono

We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent.

Matt Damon

We actually begged him to switch roles because he originally cast us flip-flopped and we both felt like we'd done that before. So we asked him and it's more challenging and more fun for everybody if they're doing stuff a little differently.

Christy Fusco

We always ask patrons what's going on. We have a small percentage of chronically overdue books.

Mads Mikkelsen

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

Darin Schreck

The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.

Ron Beck

The person we interviewed is definitely the person we got. He's real. He's doing everything we asked to do.

Raul Cisneros

The people who got star loans, they just went to the bank and asked for a loan, so they didn't take away in any way money someone in New York.

K. Chesterton

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

Brennan Brown

We are progressing. I am excited about the fact that we are improving every match. What else can you ask for as long as the kids are getting better and enjoying the process? It's a young, inexperienced team, but the more matches we play, the better we are getting.

Larry Jones

Kids are constantly playing jokes on parents, and parents are thinking, 'If I could just get them back.' It's fantasy fulfillment for adults. We target it toward adults, but kids will want to watch, too.

Craig Nelson

Kids that I saw when I first started doing this were reported missing on a constant basis,

David Nelson

Kellogg recognizes the importance of constantly streamlining costs ... That is how it has avoided, and we think will continue to avoid, the margin deterioration that has plagued the industry.

Ben Howland

Josh had surgery back in late September and at this point his pain levels are just unacceptable, just too much to handle. He has constant throbbing during every practice and every game, he's very sore every day and the next morning he's obviously very stiff. And it's not getting better.

John Ellinger

He wants to go forward, and especially at Spartan Stadium, you were constantly on your heals with those guys running at you.

Greg Davis

He constantly wants people to understand that he is a quarterback.

Fernando Ravelo

He let us know with deep regrets that he wouldn't be able to join the team due to the constant commitments he has at this time.

Michael R. Bloomberg

He is on site and has been in constant contact with the NYPD, telling us what's going on, ... to learn how they did it and what they did and make sure that our procedures are appropriate.

Doug Summers

He (Jensen) was really focused on marketing. He made sure he focused on his customers. He's been a staple. He constantly focuses on new concepts.

Jeoff Hall

We're looking at undaunted consumers, with personal expenditures running at a heady clip.

Rick Rudesill

He keeps it simple. He's not flashy. It looks like he plays to win, not to look good. He's a heady player and keeps it under control.

Akshay Kumar

Linen is good because it looks trendy and at the same time it's very comfotable

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Chris Adrian

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is known as fearlessness. But that requires that, when you see fear, you smile.

Chita Rivera

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

Edward James Olmos

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

Edward Hirsch

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

Dayo Okeniyi

Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

David Riesman

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Frank Gendreau

They take part in parades all over the Northeast.

P. J. O'Rourke

Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.

Phil Durocher

Sometimes, when there's a parade forming, you have to be able to see that and get in line.

Jerry Mitchell

I think he thought he was going to get a parade when he killed Medgar Evers.

Brice Boling

I want to be in the parade of champions.

Jim Berg

This will make it meaningful, and especially if it is part of the River Parade and the two other parades.

Liz Huff

We would like to see the parade re-energized with more entries too.

Pete Townshend

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

Madeline Albright

We are allies. We have responsibilities to each other. That's why our troops have been here with Italy's permission for so many years,

Joy Page

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you can choose to be.

Sonia Johnson

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Paulo Coelho

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Patricia Schroeder

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

Michael Keaton

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Charlie Munger

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Deepak Chopra

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Eric Schaeffer

There isn't a single scrubber in the state of Maryland.

Ashley Josephson

They're so long and lanky that they get touches on every single pass.

Brad Joyner

It was getting late, and No. 1 singles went very long.

Carlos Parreira

I usually don't like to single out anybody, but Adriano was very important to this title.

Twyla Tharp

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

James M. Cain

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

Sandra Tsing Loh

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Ervin Santana

It's Mike's decision. Not mine. He can do whatever he wants.

Chad Gaudin

It's not new for me. Whatever they want me to do is fine.

Osi Umenyiora

It's all on us. We have to win. Whatever it takes.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Vince Young

Rain, snow, whatever it takes, we have to win this ballgame.

Greg Zipadelli

I've always just kind of worked on my stuff, whatever I was doing at the time, and just been wrapped up in that.