Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Jane Yolen

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Aristophanes

The old are in a second childhood.

Sam Taylor-Wood

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

Tommy Rettig

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Ron Perlman

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

Susan Cheever

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Rick Bayan

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Miley Cyrus

I don't have a normal life.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Edward Snowden

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

Vanna White

I'm really just a normal person.

Val Kilmer

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

Bruce Boxleitner

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

Daniel Craig

I always wanted to make movies.

Adam Sandler

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

Ann Brashares

She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.

Ann Brashares

She wanted him to notice her so much.

Anthony Daniels

All I ever wanted to do was act.

Daniel Keyes

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Danny Kaye

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

Dave Attell

I never wanted to be famous.