Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

Tony Curtis

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

Steven Erikson

Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

Silvia Colloca

My body is like in a computer for good for the rest of my life - at age 23. I have my cyber body so if they ever need me young again I can just go, 'It's in the computer.

Shirley Knight

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Shepard Smith

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

Shaun White

I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.

Shailene Woodley

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

Pierre Bourdieu

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Pierre Corneille

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

Philippe Petit

Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?

Terence McKenna

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

James Patterson

You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?' 'No, Dean. It's just Max.

James McAvoy

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

James Madison

The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.

James Madison

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

Stacey Snider

The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way.

Stephen Chbosky

When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.

Steffi Graf

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Stella Benson

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

Thomas Gray

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

Thomas B. Macaulay

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

Thomas Frank

Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Russell Banks

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

Ronnie Corbett

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

Umberto Eco

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Richard Curtis

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

Raymond Chandler

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Raymond Chandler

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Rick Warren

To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life.

Tracey Emin

I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

Vince Staples

We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.