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.

Dennis Wolfberg

There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.

Edward Sapir

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

David Crane

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

John Dryden

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies

Jeffrey Smith

Dyes age differently. Old yarns used natural dyes, like vegetable dyes. Chemical dyes don't loose their color as quickly.

Charles Espenlaub

Eric handed over the car in good shape. I tried really hard to mess up the win, but fortunately we were able to get it. I can't say enough about my co-driver. He's a young kid, but he's very mature for his age and obviously a very talented driver.

John Tiner

Even after lower incomes and limited experience are taken into account, those in the 18 to 40 age group are less financially capable than their elders.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

Peter Chernin

From our perspective it created a unique and wonderful opportunity.

Steve Wiggs

This is our opportunity to stand out and create a preference for BB&T in the marketplace.

Kim Martin

This is a great way to create personality around the network. So there's something for everyone who comes.

Zygi Wilf

This is a great opportunity to create a tremendous family venue. I intend to create a Vikings legacy.

Manmohan Singh

This is a government which will create an investor and enterprise friendly environment,

Ron Rubin

This has helped to create an identity that separates us from other tea companies.

Morris Iemma

This is a long-term fight to ensure the hooligans, thugs and criminals who want to create trouble and disorder will not win.

Tatiana Totmianina

Sometimes it looks good but you are not feeling comfortable inside. But if it looks good, it means it is good.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Bobby Cox

There's nobody in that lineup who's feeling 100 percent.

Bobby Hauck

Which, as many times as they threw it (49), is impressive. They've got to be feeling good about their offensive line. Houston looked like they were unable or unprepared to handle all the things Oregon threw at them. The 38 points could've been a lot more.

Jim Calhoun

I?m going home feeling good. I think we?re getting a little better. And we can get a lot better, by the way.

Jeff King

This is a much better feeling than when we were here last time. We had a lot of guys come in and step up.

Ed DeChellis

It was important for us to kind of get the good feeling back.

David Greenfield

People are already struggling and feeling like they need to keep up with the variety of information sources they already have. There are upper limits to how much we can manage.

Rhea Perlman

Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the holidays to keep the traditions and the culture going, but I truly don't have a great feeling about any particular organized religion, and I don't think it's right to impose one on my kids.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Amos Oz

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

Steve Buscemi

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Kevin Heise

The growing Hispanic population is where this is going to rear its head. We're going to have more examples.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

Jacques Ellul

Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class of people is growing up who are unexploitable because they are not worth employing even for the minimum wage. Technological progress makes whole categories of people useless without making it possible to support them with the wealth produced by the progress.

Malik Bendjelloul

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

Jarvis Herring

We were down in the hole, and they were riding high a little bit. I guess they overlooked us.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

My guess is, over time, the young people and the women will find him, as well as his masters, unacceptable.

Sam Mitchell

I guess I'm getting my test on patience. I'm going to be patient, but it's tough.

H. Judd

I guess the key is to really listen to what it is you truly need.

Roger Federer

I guess the important moments, key moments of the match, I guess I was just superior to him. There was not much in it.

Michael Cristofer

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.

Alison Pill

I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so unassuming that I loved working with her. It wasn't like working with a star, it was Sissy. Not a big deal.

Denis O'Hare

I guess the big thing to say about 'Pig Farm' is that none of us knows if it works, and we're going in blind. It's in the tradition of 'Urinetown,' kind of - but that's a pretty small tradition. It's possible that it can fail.

John Daniels

If you play the lottery, I guess you're okay. I feel like the bridesmaid.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Cory Monteith

I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too,

Cory Doctorow

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

Courteney Cox

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

Courteney Cox

So many people have so much trouble having kids.

Amy Poehler

Most of the women in your life will outlast the men in your life. The Saturday Night Live ladies - Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Tina - and I text pictures of our kids back and forth all the time. It keeps us connected. As my nanny used to say, the older you get, the more important it is to know people that knew you when.

Amy Poehler

Always remember your kid's name,

Ally Carter

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

Allen Klein

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

Clay Shirky

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

Anna Quindlen

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

Cindy Margolis

The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!

Cicely Tyson

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

Chuck Yeager

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

Cindy Crawford

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

Cillian Murphy

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

Alfie Kohn

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

Angela Merkel

I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.