Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Blakely

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Warren Beatty

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

W. H. Auden

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Rodney Dangerfield

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

Robert Orben

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

Roger Moore

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Roger Moore

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Rod Stewart

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

Willard Scott

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Vivien Leigh

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

Will Smith

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

Sandra Lee

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

Zora Neale Hurston

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

Zach Galifianakis

I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.

Zac Efron

Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!

William Feather

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Zhang Xin

I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Jimmy Newman

When he's not playing polo or sleeping, he is concentrating on getting well-mounted and staying well-mounted.

Tony Bethel

When he (Simmons) is playing at his best, we win.

Brad Wilkerson

We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it.

Bill Guerin

We've got to keep playing for our lives.

Jeremy Trueblood

I thought we had a better team this year. But that was before we started playing the game, I guess. But they were a better team than they were two years ago -- a lot better.

Ryan Ghere

I thought that made them start playing harder.

Jimmy Williams

I think we like playing on the road sometimes more than playing at home.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

Aneurin Barnard

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Alan Sugar

You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to me, but you have got to admire what he has achieved.