Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

Thomas Brinkman

I hope no kid or adult has to go through what I'm going through.

Andy Wilson

The clubhouse is not a place where people come to stop. It's not adult day care. It's a place where people come to move on with their lives.

John McKay

The hunt was designated by the Nevada Wildlife Commission to encourage families to get their youngsters into the field without having competition from adult hunters. These types of hunts have proven to be really fun for the young hunters and we hope that families will take their kids hunting on those days.

Douglas Lowenstein

The ESA is extremely pleased that Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony Computer Entertainment America have voluntarily stepped up to take concrete steps to put the power to regulate the games kids play where it belongs ? in the hands of parents, not government, retailers, or anyone else. The combination of these new controls, the existing ESRB rating system, and voluntary commitments by retailers not to sell Mature and Adult Only games to minors strikes the right balance between strong self-regulation and the ultimate responsibility of parents to take charge of the media their kids consume.

Midge Decter

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Peter Drucker

The growth for education and training will be in continuing adult education. Online delivery is the trigger for this growth, but the demand for lifetime education stems from profound changes in society. We live in an economy where knowledge, not buildings and machinery, is the chief resource and where knowledge-workers make up the biggest part of the work force.

Jeanne Ashley

The growing interest is coming from our adult and senior populations, with a need for more family-oriented activities.

Paul Hewitt

The underage drinker is not only at fault, but there is an adult behind that. If they're drinking underage (they're) breaking the law and whoever provided that alcohol is breaking the law.

Ken Hill

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

Tim Reese

He was able to find that median where he was an authority figure but cool enough that he would hang out with his students.

John Searles

Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of signings. Nowadays, readers want to feel a connection with an author.

Jim Hall

Kyle was swinging the bat with authority all day. He had a good cut early in the game, but struck out. Actually, he looked good up there during all three of his trips to the plate. He got a fastball he could handle, low and in, and he didn't miss it.

Abdallah Baali

What matters in our eyes is that he's the president's choice and that he's close to the president. That gives him certainly the authority to deal with us in New York.

Elaine Pagels

There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.

Lee Halper

The people should have the authority to change the laws.

Kofi Annan

We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances to call upon the US authority and the present government of Iraq to review the legal status of the present court and to reallocate the present court outside Iraq, i.e. The Hague, Netherlands,

Lionel Jospin

Today I am a candidate in the presidential election, ... in the spirit of responsibility, the foundation of authority.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Al Hubbard

There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Jack Harris

You have to go by the handbook. We have all the guidelines in that book. ... Coming out at a meeting and saying you can do this or that, we can't do that in a meeting.

Edward Thomas

There is not any book/ Or face of dearest look/ That I would not turn from now/ To go into the unknown/ I must enter, and leave, alone,/ I know not how.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

David Casey

Many professors don't realize they can just buy the book. We need to create a reminder system for faculty.

Chris Rankin

I'm also a fan of the books, long before I got into the movie.

Richard Crawford

When he was dealing with me, he made me feel as if I were the only thing important to him.

Mary Simpson

I don't know why I was so optimistic about this transition. About every situation you can imagine, we have been dealing with.

Chelan Simmons

I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'

Diane Swonk

The Fed doesn't want to be dealing with the old economy, with deficits returning. They're trying to have some impact on decisions made now without getting us into permanent problems.

Chris Brown

It's hard now being a young performer, it's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. You know, dealing with schoolwork and friendships and everything. But it's great, though. You gotta cope.

Wayne Chrebet

It's just a weird thing you don't want to accept. I've had a lot of time at home with my kids and that's been great. It's something I've always looked forward to. The rest is dealing with not having this in my life anymore.

Terry McMillan

It's the deception and when you think you are dealing with someone you think you can trust.

Rep Curry

It's a philosophical transition we are dealing with.

Chris Doyle

They're handicapped by old systems. They have personnel dealing with paperwork that can be handled electronically.

Christopher McQuarrie

I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side in conflict with itself.

Megan Ronhovde

It is a lot of thinking and every game we make some minor adjustments. You go man-to-man it's a little more simplistic. I think it's been a little easier for the younger girls.

Ross McKenzie

It has been easier to play under the same system we used in college. I have felt really comfortable working here with someone who is familiar.

Henrik Lundqvist

When they shoot form the middle they have so many options, it can hit someone. It's easier when we let them shoot from the sides. There's more time to see the puck easier. We talked about it to pressure harder and pressure at the right times and I think that's the key right now.

Lisa Peters

I couldn't make it easier for him. He did great though it forced him to grow up.

Christine Quinn

He has made coordination and negotiation much easier and more effective.

Randy Cunneyworth

He made plenty of tough saves, but he has to be more focused on the easier saves.

Warren Buffett

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

Steve Simmons

In fact, one guy wanted to be on Lyon Street because it would be easier for him to go to the races,

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Rob McKittrick

He is that guy in the movie. He is that funny guy who can get in your grill, and be funny about it. He's a lot more interesting in person than you usually see on the screen.

Maddie Ziegler

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

Seth Rogen

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

David Crane

I'd like to hope that years from now people can look at the reruns...and say 'That is still a really funny show' or 'It's still really sweet.' And if that happens ... I'll be thrilled.

Jim Saxton

He had to work hard just to get past the perception that he was just a funny guy,

Rebecca West

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Russell Brand

If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?

Ron Atkinson

I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

Madeleine Quayat

I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.

Ramsey Clark

has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Matthew Bright

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Viola Spolin

That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.

Diane Nelson

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

Rick Tocchet

In your career, it's nice to be known that you stood up for your teammates but it's also nice that when your team needed a goal, you were put out in those situations.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shatner

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

William Gilbert

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.

William Shirley

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

William J. Clinton

It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.

William James

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

William James

Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

William James

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

Sara Gilbert

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Conservatism is the politics of reality

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

Richard Flanagan

What reality was ever made by realists?

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Wolfgang Puck

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

Julian Bond

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980

Penelope Keith

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

Julian Fellowes

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

Maria Semple

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Kate Jackson

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

John Hodgman

My fame is due to broadcast television.

Frank Caliendo

I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Daina Parent

We've been working all year toward this. This is the time we're going to go out and show them what we're made of.

Walter Benjamin

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Joan Sutherland

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Oscar Wilde

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

J. K. Rowling

Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Robert M. Pirsig

A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

Robert Farrar Capon

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Robin Trower

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

Sam Altman

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

Sam Altman

Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.

Jordan Peele

You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

Eric Bana

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

Norman Ralph Augustine

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.