Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Blakely

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Warren Beatty

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

W. H. Auden

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Rodney Dangerfield

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

Robert Orben

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

Sandra Bullock

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

Roger Moore

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Roger Moore

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Rod Taylor

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

Emma Stone

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

Richard Madden

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

Erik Lomis

Kids love the movie. Our audience is predominantly young -- 12 and younger -- so most of the eyeballs got in at children's price. But we expect that age group to grow over the coming weeks as word of mouth spreads. The film is budgeted considerably under $30 million, so it's going to be very profitable. Frankie Muniz's last film ('Big Fat Liar') opened to $11 million and did $47 million (so) this could do $60 million.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Dr. Young

I also have five children at home, all under the age of 10. So needless to say, we keep busy.

Jim Capaldi

I always felt from a very early age that whatever one's role in life is, we all have our own particular style, our own particular character.

Randy Hendricks

He wants to take stock of his health and his motivation. If someone said you have to decide today, the answer would be he would retire. He doesn't think at this point, based on the end of the season, that he's got seven months of baseball in him, to go through that grind at age 43-44.

Lorenzo Lynch

He was big for his age so they put him on the line, ... All he was doing was blocking and rushing the quarterback on defense.

Ann Andrews

Hector is a super gifted person and an amazing organ player, ... It kind of blows your mind when you see him. He's very unique. He sits with his back to the audience, the organ facing backstage. You can see his feet, and he puts on quite a foot show. You're just amazed. There's not an age that doesn't appreciate him.

Roy Walford

The only thing that retards aging is calorie restriction. As genetic studies go forward, we'll find out why.

Ronnie Shakes

I like life. It's something to do.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Systems die; instincts remain.

Epictetus

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

Luigi Fontana

Eating less, if it is a high-quality diet, will improve your health, delay aging, and increase your chance of living a long, healthy and happy life. This is the first paper to show that long-term calorie restriction with optimal nutrition has cardiac-specific effects that ameliorate the age-associated decline in diastolic function in humans. In other words, this is the first report ever to show that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition may delay primary aging in human beings.

Alicia Munnell

The aging of the population may put employers in a tight situation.

Bruce Thompson

The Air Force spends a significant amount of money testing equipment, and operational costs go up each year with the aging of equipment. Our job is to keep those costs down and the planes flying.

Walter Willett

It was just about 15 years ago when a scientist at the National Institute on Aging concluded that it was good to be a little overweight rather than normal weight, ... And it was pure rubbish.

Linton Brooks

It may turn out to be that it's 60 plus. We're doing accelerated aging tests to find that out.