Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Makkai

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

John Spencer

This is a worrying trend for future adult oral health, as this is occurring despite nearly every child and adolescent using dental services in the last two years, mostly at a school dental service clinic,

Stephen Lewis

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.

Rick Perlstein

As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents' circle was predominantly conservative, not just on Israel but on most political issues. Most of all, they were intensely (and this is a word I remember repeating in my own angry adolescent dialogues with myself) tribal.

Cary Fukunaga

'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.

John Glover

One of the strongest things in the world is the father/son bond, and that's what they are drawing on. It also applies to the whole series because of Clark and that awkward adolescent period we all remember. Even the popular kid feels that and can relate. More and more adults are catching on and say, 'I watch the show and like it'.

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.

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.

Natasha Trethewey

I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Brian Jordan

As long as my knee is healthy, I'm not worried about the competition. Right now, my knee is almost there. I need to stay on schedule and keep getting strong. Once I'm full speed, I know I can play the outfield.

Jon Lester

As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.

George Santayana

As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired

John Gomery

a small group driven by Liberal interests and personal greed almost effortlessly breached walls built to separate politicians from the treasury.

Brian Phillips

That was 28 years ago. People are wrongfully arrested from time to time. He somehow managed to pass an entire federal background check and remain in service for almost 30 years.

David Bryant

Ragtime' is almost like doing an opera. The voices have to be amazing,

Byron White

Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latter's privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established.

Rick Garcia

The bottom line is they are just attempting to build a right-wing voter base in the state of Illinois, which traditionally has been moderate.

Joseph Farah

This is not a quickie, exploitation book attempting to capitalize on the worldwide publicity ultimately generated by Terri's story, ... This is the powerful, insightful and definitive story, told by a dedicated and hard-working journalist who made it her business, after nearly three years of covering this life-and-death conflict, to bring it to the attention of the national and international media.

Kent Haruf

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

Harold E. Varmus

A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.

Deb Price

If the state is attempting to bring in talented people, having this kind of thing -- not just in law but in the state constitution -- sends a very strong statement about what kind of state it is.

Bruce Flamm

I can't think of anything more scary than a woman with a scarred uterus attempting a vaginal birth at home. I'm sure it's happening, and I'm sure some women have already died because of this, and some babies have died.

Henry A. Kissinger

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.

Tim Evans

It is pretty clear they were attempting to move this oil into a crude oil market where there was already a surplus.

Rick Barnes

I have no problem with Daniel attempting to find out what his status may be in the upcoming draft. This is a good rule put in place for players to explore their draft status.

Ted Stevens

The stability of some of the nations principally responsible for supplying oil to the United States can no longer be taken for granted.

Tom Coughlin

Storage is no longer in the background. It's not just nice to have; it's a must-have.

Wes Anderson

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

Charles Howell

The shortest 11 can play is 505. I walked it to the back and it was 513, which puts it longer than No. 13.

J. D. Souther

I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

Fernando Lopez

There will no longer be a big eruption. It's releasing pressure.

Rick Clausen

That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful.

David Brown

Everything went fine. It took longer than I like, but I'm slow and meticulous because I like to get things done right.

Bunroku Yoshino

Everything is a secret pact if it's under negotiation. After the United States disclosed the official documents, it was no longer a secret pact.

Tina Ambani

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Edward Hirsch

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

Jack Johnson

We're all related. We're all a family.

Tibby Johnston

Most stories are related to respect. So they know that we need to respect everything.

Leon Bear

We're all related in one way or the other.

Steven Boylan

I know this is a big one, but I can't say if it is related to anything that is going on.

Kim Cattrall

I like movies I can relate to.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Rich Davis

Britt made a tough play. It would have been tough to get around it.

Ronald Coleman

This was my decision. It's a tough day.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Donald Trump

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.