Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Bryant Quinn

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Michael Phelps

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

Evel Knievel

She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.

Harry Browne

Social Security is a fraudulent scheme in which the government collect money from you for your retirement - and immediately spend the money on something else.

J. G. Ballard

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

Barry Ritholtz

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

George Gregan

I would not have put myself through the week I have been through if I was considering retirement,

Harry Reid

We must not sit by and do nothing while thousands of hard-working Americans' retirement security is at risk,

Jean Alesi

I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished.

Benjamin Cardozo

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

Bret Easton Ellis

... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.

Bruce Lee

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Eckhart Tolle

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Eddie Redmayne

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

Dustin Hoffman

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

Douglas Hofstadter

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

Douglas Coupland

Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.

Douglas Coupland

Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Marcus Miller

This is the first time we've played soccer in the spring; we have just played in the fall in the past, so it's kind of fun to see some different teams.

bell hooks

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Sarah Roemer

I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'

Michael Robinson

And when we fall back into our safety zone, we become complacent.

David Robinson

Another flake doesn't have to fall and we're going have a fourth consecutive year of above-normal snowfall.

Anu Garg

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.