Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Derringer

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

Jimmy Fallon

Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

Elizabeth Olsen

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Art Spiegelman

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

David Foster Wallace

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

Tina Fey

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

Sigmund Freud

The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

Serj Tankian

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

Steve Ralston

Italy is a very defensive team, very well organized, they look to counter-attack. Their defense is rock solid.

Danny Ainge

He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago.

R. Inge

He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's a smart pitcher. He knows what he's doing.

Kris Kleeman

I thought the first half defense was very good. I wish we could have scored some points there to get a lead. We missed our first 10 shots to start the game, we had good shots that we have to be able to make. We didn't make them and kept them in the game.

Dan Watkins

I thought that was the only mistake our defense made the whole game. We just didn't pick up the player in the middle.

Steve Sampson

I thought that Tyrone Marshall leaving the game was a big loss for us because I think he was holding the middle of the defense quite well for us. When he left we lost the middle of the defense.

Mitch Osborn

I thought we actually played better down there than when we played them at our own place. I thought our defense was much better. Generally everybody really played well. If you win by 18 (at Clarinda), that's a great win.

Les Miles

I thought that our defense stymied them all day, and really played extremely well,

Steve Campbell

I think we gave them more yards on penalties than they had in the first half. Our defense flies around and makes some plays, and we just need to keep that up.

William Hazlitt

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

John Maynard Keynes

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

Confucius

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

Gregory Bateson

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.