Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Al Sharpton

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

Al Sharpton

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

J. Taylor

We're in an information age, yet from a public notification perspective, we're still ... in the Stone Age,

Mark Twain

We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.

Peggy Sell

We want everyone to feel that their library card is special, regardless of their age. We want them to know that, as soon as you get a library card, it becomes part of your life.

Pat Camden

We're looking for a male, white, who's between 25 and 30 years of age, about 6 feet tall with thin build. He was laughing and driving a blue four-door vehicle.

William Wordsworth

With Nature never do they wageA foolish strife; they seeA happy youth, and their old ageIs beautiful and free.

Paul Sereno

We're going to dinosaur-age beds, huge tracts of the Sahara that nomads may have crossed, but there's not a word written about that.

Dr. Cykiert

We're expecting to see more age-related macular degeneration because the baby boomer generation is approaching that age, and everyone is living longer. It potentially could be devastating.

Ed Fox

We're father and son. When I was his age, I did the same things. I got caught for things. I never got caught as many times as he did, but I had trouble in school.

Elizabeth Jennings

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

M. Night Shyamalan

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Jim Murray

The only bad thing about Spokane is that there's nothing to do after 10 in the morning

Lorraine Bracco

The only bad thing is that I've been smoking cigarettes. I smoke in the play, so I've limited myself to smoking only in the theater.

David Land

The potential for going through $70 a barrel is certainly there, it wouldn't take a lot of bad news. You've got the U.S. hurricane season in the not too distant future, as well as the driving season.

Ron Aldy

The postseason depends on who's playing better that night and you don't have to have but one bad night.

Jeff Gundy

The positive is they found something they can fix. It's been a string of bad fortune for him injury-wise, but we're happy the doctor has been able to locate something we can do something about.

Ashley Josephson

We are pretty disappointed we didn't come out right away and play our 'A' game. We had a pretty bad first half, not intense enough. ... The first half is what killed us.

Charles Spurgeon

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Alan Greenspan

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions .... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

Al Kaline

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

Chris Colfer

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

Audre Lorde

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

Arthur Rimbaud

I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.

Carlos Gonzalez

I'm more focused at the plate- that's the key.

Charlotte Bronte

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity had not yet found the key.

Charles Caleb Colton

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

David Hilbert

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

Diablo Cody

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

Beth Moore

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Bill Vaughan

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Bruno Schulz

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

Bill Johnson

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

Jim Bragg

This is the maturity she has and that's why she's going to be playing in college. She realizes for the team to be successful, she had to do something she might not want to do. That's a team player and that's why teams with her on them will be successful.

Alan Rickman

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Al Pacino

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

Al Madrigal

My primary responsibility is to be funny,

Chris Bosh

I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that.

Chogyam Trungpa

We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.

Chogyam Trungpa

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

Dean Acheson

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

Dayron Robles

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

Becky Hammon

We're starting to come together a little more. We're starting to put it together.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Lawrence Frank

We're starting to see what we need to do to win.

Terrie Archer

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Kim Smith

We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.

Gary LaGrange

We're starting to get back to work today.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Yusuke Nakai

At first, all I thought about was winning a starting position.

Wilson Edwards

They're starting to get the feel of winning.