Famous Quotes & Sayings

Otis Smith

Age doesn't matter. Would you rather have a 60-year-old guy and not get it done or a 30-year-old guy and win Super Bowls?

Linda Ronstadt

The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.

David Crane

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

William Congreve

Believe it, Men have ever been the same,And all the Golden Age is but a Dream.

Ian Robertson

Biologically and psychologically, old age need not now begin until the eighties for many people.

Nishi Silva

Everything will be done by people till they are able.But there will be a time when they cannot do what they want to do,there will be a time they don't receive what they want etc.It is the ending age of our lives,that is the time people distinguish good and bad exactly.What I believe is,I need not to keep the empty places in my life where I would repent some day reminiscing the events during the life...

Anne Graham Lotz

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.

Adam McKay

'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.

Bruce Robinson

I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.

Elizabeth Kenny

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Charles Peabody

It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious,

Anna Netrebko

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Jeaniene Frost

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood,

J. K. Rowling

Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

Grace Paley

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

Sara Shepard

I really like reading about how families work together.

Samuel West

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

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.

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.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Renzo Rosso

In New York, I wear dark denim most of the time.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.