Famous Quotes & Sayings

Otis Smith

Age doesn't matter. Would you rather have a 60-year-old guy and not get it done or a 30-year-old guy and win Super Bowls?

Linda Ronstadt

The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.

Caroline Sunshine

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

Sebastian Coe

I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day.

Jose Andres Puerta

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.

Alex Winston

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

Jason Alexander

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.

Dean Stockwell

I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.

Melissa McCarthy

I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.

Bill Harris

I want bad actors who have violated the public trust to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, ... What I will not do is cave into political pressure and start this process until I have a complete picture of what the problem is.

Tim Ryan

The music is somewhat outrageous and grows bigger and bigger. The last number, in which there's bad blood between Vienna and Emma, is a big rousing kind of song by everyone.

Paul Edinger

The move to a new team - maybe it was a little wakeup call, ... I was thinking, 'I can't have another bad year,' knowing you have to do better than ever to stay on the team.

Jackson Katz

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Marc Pearlman

A flood of memories came back to him and he was, literally, paralyzed. So, 'John Doe' wasn't looking for a settlement, per se. This came back to him in a rush and he was in very, very bad shape, very traumatized, and what he was looking for was help and answers.

Kwame Brown

A few people were working on the lease and they sent it down with 10 days to vote on it. And it was like, 'if you don't like the lease, you don't like baseball, and you're the bad guy.' Certainly, you look at that and say it was somewhat disrespectful.

Bob Harrington

A few months ago we had a room that we were having some very bad odor problems with from what we suspected was probably mold.

John Murray

A dose of poison can do its work only once, but a bad book can go on poisoning people's minds for any length of time

William Murray

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Adam Roberts

Scoop is a business person concerned with status, wealth and his place on the social ladder.

Roger Penske

Roush Racing has their business decision to make,

R. Robinson

Right now we're still a small business going through small business pain.

Daniel Jester

Right now, we're seeing upward momentum in long-term rates, especially with new inflation worries. Long-term rates have been so low for so long compared to where they'd normally be in the business cycle -- at some point a correction is necessary.

Chris Denove

Pretty much our destiny is in our own hands. If we take care of business with them, it really doesn't matter what they do.

Jim Rennard

Pretty much every business plan that we looked at, we came to the conclusion that you have to be able to offer that or you will lose.

Sheryl Kingstone

Premise-based equipment providers had no idea how to sell business applications.

Jack Carroll

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

Rick Clancy

San Diego has become more of a headquarters for business and management operations of all sorts.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Sheryl Crow

Being around children that small, you see how naturally they gravitate to the light. They're not cynical yet. It takes many years to unlearn that kind of innocence.

Adam Hamilton

The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.

Al Roker

I would say that children are more resilient than you realize, and that as long as you love them, there is no right way to raise your children. You have to find your own way. It's your way and it's your child.

Jeff Miller

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

Tom Burt

While we are confident that Microsoft ultimately will prevail in these lawsuits, we are disappointed that we have missed the opportunity to improve education for disadvantaged children while resolving litigation,

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Dana Altman

We've won some games we shouldn't. We probably lost some games we should've won. We just need to focus on getting better. If a few weeks down the line we're still in the hunt, we can talk about it later. But it's too early for our team to be talking about anything like that.

Barry Trotz

Early in the year we were getting a lot of grief from people, saying you're playing some teams that aren't quite as strong. But they were strong teams, we just sort of got their number early.

Ramon Ortiz

Early in the year, we know what happened. I didn't feel too good. I was scared about the groin. I feel good now, and everything is working. I don't feel anything in the leg.

Randy Johnson

Everything's fine. Everything's good. It's early in the year.

Dan Ariola

Turay had the big shot and it was nice to get the early lead. That was big because we didn't know whether this would be a five-inning game or not (because of the weather).

Lance Randall

Top to bottom, it's been terrific all year long. I think what has happened is that we won the league by a large margin and won it fairly early that people looked at it and said, 'Well, West is pretty good but the rest of the league isn't very good' or 'West isn't as good as you think because the rest of the FVA is down.' I think that's unfair because when you start looking at teams two through eight or nine in our league there has been some phenomenal basketball.

John Subers

We were fortunate to hitch our wagon to Phil early and he hasn't disappointed.

Robert Scoble

Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.

Cindy Sheehan

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Jan Egeland

Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it's too late? Maybe. It's a logistical nightmare,

Julie Hall

Are people still sleeping with their chickens? Yes, they are.

Ayad Allawi

are outlaws or terrorists ... who do not represent the sentiments of the people of the towns.

Randeep Hooda

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

Pablo Picasso

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

Carl Olson

And then people got all excited. Why was it there?

Constantin Oclei

The situation is very bad. We need to evacuate 1,200 people from Bechet and its surroundings by this evening.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Jean Craighead George

I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Jay Pharoah

Im known for impressions and family stories.

Jay McInerney

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

Jay Leno

The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, MSNBC will be the station not to report it first.

Jay Leno

This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage club in Hollywood. You know what I call a Republican that spends a lot of money in a strip club? A Democrat.

Chuck Mulloy

all we know for sure is that the investigation is continuing.

Jim Manley

Not sure if we can get it done this week.

Vicki Phillips

I want to make sure we do all we can to make sure the wetlands are preserved,

Ann Marshall

I want to make sure I have one of these.

Gerald Myers

The N.C.A.A. wanted to make sure that they had to be qualified, and they couldn't be recruited.

Ron Haskins

It should be something that we need to be watching carefully. You just need to make sure it's being done fairly.

Steve Scott

It's mystifying; it's disappointing. I'm not sure where to go from here.

Patricia McKinney

That really put me on my toes, put me on my toes to make sure that I did.

Don Schmidt

It's nice. I'm not so sure it's worth the money.