Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Nelson

We have a much more significant awareness of the future than we have ever had before as an institution. Children and adolescents don't typically focus on careful planning and being responsive to the community, but young adults do make those kinds of plans. So I'd say we're entering early adulthood at age 60.

Paul Fussell

We were going to live. We were going to grow up to adulthood after all.

Graydon Carter

I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.

Sydney J. Harris

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it.

Ben Bernanke

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.

Joel Fuhrman

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.

Ned Vizzini

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

Kurt Andersen

When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.

Lee Ryan

When I was a kidI liked burning ants with a magnifying glass.but I think that progressed into adulthood where I now believe in aliens.

Vikram Seth

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

David Horsey

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.

Barbara Schneeman

Using the term multi grain or seven grain doesn't necessarily mean that a product contains whole grains.

Peter Thiel

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

Ben Bernanke

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

Rudolf Scharping

If a planned force contains around 3,000 men, then our contribution would be two or three companies,

Andrea Dunn

Today at the supermarket, one dozen large eggs can cost as little as $1. One egg contains the protein equivalent of 1 ounce of meat -- that's a great value for the money.

Dale Timmermann

It contains most of the revenues and most of the expenses for government actions.

Lynn Lavner

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Gail Carson Levine

I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

Brendon Urie

I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.

Betsey Johnson

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

Bill Bryson

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

Scott Harris

That was their first varsity win. They were really excited about it. It was a good match.

Josh Green

That would be great. We didn't expect our season to be over (today) but we'll be excited about it.

Duane Zauner

That was the whole goal, to get ready for Colfax and get ready for league. This was the first time we've played in two weeks, so we were real excited to get field time in today.

Pam Dean

That was the first home run we've had in our park. So, all of the girls were excited and were proud of Emily.

Mark Evans

That was a great lift from Megan. She got two big rebounds and made two big offensive plays. She got us excited again.

Castor Pang

Most H-shares have reached irrational highs so investors are now taking profit.

Steve Warren

We've been here long enough that the kids understand the importance of these games. Because of who we play from week to week you can't let the highs be too high and the lows be too low.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

Donald Selkin

We may need some new impetus to get past the highs we've hit this year.

Pat Ryan

Look at my career. It's had its highs and lows. I've won everything and I've lost everything.

Ron Hill

That has a lot of implications for tech stocks, ... Maybe we've seen the highs and lows of the year.

Tim Heekin

We've been on a tear and it's just kind of flattening out today after hitting some near-term highs yesterday.

Douglas Wood

Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.

Rick Canepa

Normally this time of year we have highs in the upper 50s.

Tom Shrader

We're up 15 or 20 percent off our (July 24) lows. But September is a tricky month historically. We could retest recent lows by as much as 10 percent before we're able to really move higher.

Cary Elwes

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

William Shakespeare

How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena)

Bette Midler

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Brett Somers

I don't know a high C from a low C.

Bat for Lashes

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Ben Affleck

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Bode Miller

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.