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.

Jane Hirshfield

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

Kristen Kovesdy

I think we've gained a lot in experience and by getting in the gym and working out the kinks. The important thing is that we need to start having fun and play as a team.

Joanne McCallie

I think what most people don't realize is that this team has four people with experience (but) I think this team is really growing now.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I think something more formulaic was expected. But this movie is not just about the experience of a soldier, but also of a human being. We live in a world that is not always full of action.

Jim Talent

I will come with independence and a fresh perspective. I have life experience and public servant experience that will serve (Missourians) well.

Michael Muller

I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer, I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo: the experience of getting the photos is the challenge or the thing.

Brad Wilkerson

I did some different things mechanically that took me a while to get out of. I'm looking forward to getting back and getting 100 percent for next year. I'm going to look at this season as, hopefully, a learning experience and go home and work as hard as I have been in the offseason and get ready for next year.

Josh Hutcherson

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

Leigh Podlesny

I'd like to see them use the experience they've gained and be aggressive.

David Eger

I've always said there are a handful of stars out here, but there are also 70 or so very good players who could always win. If you're good enough to play out here, you're good enough to win.

Dusty Baker

I've always said it's harder to get a good leadoff man than anything,

Frances Jones

I've always wanted to volunteer to do something significant. Today's a very good time for me to do it.

Vinny Castilla

I've always (wanted) to play in San Diego. It's a great city, and I have a lot of friends there. I always hit good in San Diego, too.

Mike Trgovac

I've always thought that if you do a good job people will notice you. I don't self promote myself or all that.

Michael Redhill

I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

Lovie Smith

I've always liked him. I think he'll be a very good player in the league someday.

Robyn Hitchcock

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

Warren Fields

I've always been good with numbers and good at getting numbers to where people could understand them. I never thought I would make a good (certified public accountant) though.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Alex Kingston

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

Alex Grey

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

Albert Shanker

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

Debi Thomas

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

E. L. Konigsburg

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

E. L. Konigsburg

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

E. M. Forster

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

Drew Carey

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

Doug E. Fresh

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.