Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Al Sharpton

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

Al Sharpton

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

John Malkovich

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. I thought it was necessary to update the figure of the bohemian, but not in the traditional way.

David Mitchell

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.

Jennifer Bennett

Those looks will still be in for this spring, but the bohemian look is also going to very big, with wooden jewelry, wedge sandals and long, loose fitting clothing. Look for the 1960s mod look to start showing up in stores as well. The big sunglasses, the mini skirts and big, bold jewelry all are part of mod style.

Sheena Iyengar

When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you're trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh?

Sofia Boutella

I make body chains that come from the neck, cross in the middle of your chest, then go around your waist. I mix them with feathers for a gypsy, bohemian style.

Erno Rubik

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.

Gelett Burgess

there are no roads in all Bohemia !

Constantine Maroulis

I respected everyone, and I think they wanted me to be me. They thought I was crazy when I wanted to sing Bohemian Rhapsody , but when I executed it, they were really psyched.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.

Mark Luscombe

What's really complex about it is you're going to have to do allocations you've never had to do before.

Darren Irby

Working with celebrities has become, over the last decade, a lot more complex with so many more nonprofits engaging with celebrities.

Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Don Garber

Absolutely. Dallas is not a playoff contender. They had one of the worst seasons in the history of our league. They need impact immediately, and they will get that. Dallas needs to have somebody that's going to help them win some games as they get ready for moving into their new complex in 2005.

Keith White

A big complex with a gym in it, a weight room, a music studio, a photo lab, a computer lab.

John Gall

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

Ellen Miller

It's just too complex and it's not timely.

David Rice

It's a simple concept, but a complex system.

Richard Carmona

Americans are overwhelmed with the complexity of health information. We have hit a point of information overload and the public health message is being diluted.

Mayor Boswell

About 80 to 90 percent of the things mentioned were already in motion.

Adrian Joseph

A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been trying to do all season - be that third-leading scorer on the team.

Matthew Prior

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

Carson Daly

I try and mention it as much as possible when I'm on the air.

Greg Rucka

Oh, ... Did we mention that he would be non-violent?

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

John Updike

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'

Don Thompson

We want students to know what they are getting into, ... The recruiters mention travel, but they don't mention the Middle East.

Chuck D.

You can mention the name, and people recognize it.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Don Powell

It's not public works. It's not water, sewage or utilities. It's the soul of our life.

Victor Mendez

It's not just the workers. It's the traveling public we're also worried about.