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.

Roy Walford

The only thing that retards aging is calorie restriction. As genetic studies go forward, we'll find out why.

Ronnie Shakes

I like life. It's something to do.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Systems die; instincts remain.

Epictetus

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

Luigi Fontana

Eating less, if it is a high-quality diet, will improve your health, delay aging, and increase your chance of living a long, healthy and happy life. This is the first paper to show that long-term calorie restriction with optimal nutrition has cardiac-specific effects that ameliorate the age-associated decline in diastolic function in humans. In other words, this is the first report ever to show that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition may delay primary aging in human beings.

Alicia Munnell

The aging of the population may put employers in a tight situation.

Elizabeth Janeway

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

James M. Barrie

If I were younger, I'd know more.

Marsha Wienert

The Japanese population is aging and has created a market niche with great potential for Hawaii. They have the income levels and the time to travel.

Milan Kundera

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

Oprah Winfrey

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

Freya Stark

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

Robert Kirkman

I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.

Thomas Carlyle

How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.

Ron Howard

3-D is a truly exciting possibility.

Steven Pinker

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

Max Lerner

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Nicolas Cage

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.