Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Epictetus

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Paul Simonon

You're only as old as you feel.

Lucy Lawless

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

John Oates

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

Mark Twain

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

Lucille Ball

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Gil Scott-Heron

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.

Raymond Moody

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

Don Yaeger

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

David Letterman

There's already been some trouble for Osama bin Laden in the afterlife. There was a mix up and he was greeted by 72 vegans.

David Eagleman

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

David Eagleman

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

Dave Grohl

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Darrell Royal

I had hoped God would be neutral.

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.

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.

Dr. Young

I also have five children at home, all under the age of 10. So needless to say, we keep busy.

Jim Capaldi

I always felt from a very early age that whatever one's role in life is, we all have our own particular style, our own particular character.

Randy Hendricks

He wants to take stock of his health and his motivation. If someone said you have to decide today, the answer would be he would retire. He doesn't think at this point, based on the end of the season, that he's got seven months of baseball in him, to go through that grind at age 43-44.

Lorenzo Lynch

He was big for his age so they put him on the line, ... All he was doing was blocking and rushing the quarterback on defense.

Ann Andrews

Hector is a super gifted person and an amazing organ player, ... It kind of blows your mind when you see him. He's very unique. He sits with his back to the audience, the organ facing backstage. You can see his feet, and he puts on quite a foot show. You're just amazed. There's not an age that doesn't appreciate him.