Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Max Muller

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Michael Gruber

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Frank Gehry

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

Jo Nesbo

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

John Lydon

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

Ben Kingsley

It's very difficult to be objective about one's childhood because you have no perspective on it. I have nothing to compare it with. The only way I can lead any kind of a comparative life is to portray other men.

Greg Behrendt

It's the prettiest place on the planet, ... My childhood was like a dream. It's like the last Mayberry.

Bill Archer

It provides tax relief ... from the childhood years to the education years, from the savings years to the retirement years,

Justin Vernon

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

Adrian Leppard

I am very encouraged by the response from members of the public.

Kate Curran

My parents always encouraged me to do what I wanted.

Cecilia Munoz

We do think it's workable. We're encouraged by it.

Paul Vasconi

I have to admit, I wasn't encouraged at first.

Martha Stewart

They have a lot of time to think and plan for the future, and they should be encouraged to,

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Anna C. Brackett

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Adlai Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Max Frisch

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

John Stuart Mill

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

Marianne Williamson

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Porter Bibb

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

Michael Hegarty

Tennessee is a truly great and competitive opponent. I can tell by the way we played them today that we are really starting to come along.

Reggie Lewis

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

Bill Bowles

Ross made a great play and kept them out of there.

Ryan Goodman

Ryan did a great job defensively the whole weekend, and scored just enough to win. It was a masterful performance.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.