Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Ham

What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue.

Kyrsten Sinema

I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.

Emma Stone

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

Richard Madden

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

Erik Lomis

Kids love the movie. Our audience is predominantly young -- 12 and younger -- so most of the eyeballs got in at children's price. But we expect that age group to grow over the coming weeks as word of mouth spreads. The film is budgeted considerably under $30 million, so it's going to be very profitable. Frankie Muniz's last film ('Big Fat Liar') opened to $11 million and did $47 million (so) this could do $60 million.

William Shakespeare

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Shannon Lewis

I think it may seem confusing if you're not familiar with the process a government agency has to go through to utilize grant funding.

David Madden

It appears that age-related cognitive changes are the result of combined influences on the gray matter and the white matter.

Tamsin Egerton

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

George Pipas

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Scott Skiles

I guess the assumption I'll go under is that we'll start the same way we did (Saturday) night.

Christine Callies

This is only under the assumption that the full tax rate cuts go into effect.

Paul Tagliabue

At this point you have to proceed on the assumption ... that they may be unable to play in New Orleans at all for the entire season,

Paul Tagliabue

At this point you have to proceed on the assumption . . . that they may be unable to play in New Orleans at all for the entire sea- son,

Tom Evslin

That's been the biggest surprise to me. We're a wholesaler of Internet telephony, and our initial assumption was that the first customers would be ISPs looking to extend their traditional business to include voice. But it's been the traditional resellers selling prepaid calling cards that have moved quickly.

Phillip E. Johnson

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

Geoff Tate

Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.

Doris Meissner

What you have here, with illegal immigration, it's an issue in the economy. It's an issue where immigration law is out of date, an expression of a different era than the one we're living in.

Pat Russo

He's just lights out. His ERA is under one and when he gets it going things work out real well for us. He seems to come through for us every time.

Jim Bankoff

I think it's even more important to have quality in this era of Web media than it has ever been. The fusion of platform technology plus talent is what the next wave is all about, and that's where Vox Media is positioned.

Jorge Castaneda

to establish a new era in U.S.-Mexico relations.

Joe Miller

He did a good job running the offense. Howard had a few transition baskets in the run (to erase the 16-point deficit).

Roger Ailes

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

David Potts

Remember that what we do is not 'to' or 'for' the poor, ... but 'with' the poor. And even if we fail to eradicate poverty in this area, it will be a glorious failure!

Elton Brand

In the past, we might have folded, but we erased that 12-point lead and we're up three at halftime. It's a great, great feeling. It's much different than before.

Liz Shimek

I'm just really excited. A loss for words, really. I'm looking forward to a new era in my life... I'm just really excited for the next few months and years.

John Bliss

Golden Valley is a very tough team and they always play us very tough. We're going to have to step it up.

Anton LaVey

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Robert Jordan

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

Lauren Dougherty

His hair is more naturally sun-kissed, and he has a little less of a golden tan.

W. Tozer

I love it when you win in two, and I hate it if you go to the golden goal.

Anthony Cummings

The Golden Slipper is a pressure race and this horse doesn't feel pressure.

Geoff Blum

Those are golden opportunities. A strikeout right there would have been better than what I did.

Drew Smith

It used to be about the golden years. We talk about it (now) as a place where you start your second life. It's not about slowing down.

Tony Pullen

I told them going into the seventh inning we want to make it a magical season so let's make it a magical first game.

Bob Snyder

It was a wonderful, magical night of music,

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Agnus Berenato

We've had a magical season. I don't think we're ready for it to end.

Ozzie Guillen

Every day, it's somebody different. I've never seen a team as magical as this one.

Paul Alexander

We went there in the middle of the night, the 'blue hour' between midnight and 3am. Talk about haunted! It's a magical place to work.

M. Wolfe

For whatever reason, $199 tends to be a magical price point.

Howard Davidowitz

The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.

Ron Taffel

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Russell Crowe

I do occasionally wonder, if you were to bring to life one of those young men who sacrificed themselves in what was advertised to them as the Great War, and the war to end all war, and show them that we're still engaged in armed conflict in the same area, I'm not sure that they would be pleased about what their sacrifices amounted to.

Russell Baker

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.