Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Candrea

I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom.

Mike Carey

Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be?

Nicholas Hoult

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

Ned Vizzini

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

Nathan Parsons

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

Nathan Lane

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date

Nathan Lane

As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.

Naomi Judd

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.

Nadia Comaneci

It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

Mo Ibrahim

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable.

Miuccia Prada

Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.

Miuccia Prada

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

Miuccia Prada

The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.

Mike Pompeo

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

Juan Williams

If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.

Judd Apatow

Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.

Judd Apatow

I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent.

Judd Apatow

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.

Little Richard

People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Paul Reubens

I remember one play [when I was kid] was about this murderous mad scientist, and my whole part was to be the guy who got thrown into a vat of acid as the curtain went up. I was very pissed off at these older kids; they'd outsmarted me.

Paul Reubens

There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids.

Paul Reubens

I'm just trying to illustrate that it's okay to be different — not that it's good, not that it's bad, but that it's all right. I'm trying to tell kids to have a good time and to encourage them to be creative and to question things,

Paul Reubens

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

Paul Reiser

Our date-nightrule is no talking about the kids. That lasts about to the end of the driveway.

Paul Reiser

Parents often give middle names just so that later, when they're yelling at the kid, they can drag it out. Henry David Thoreau, you come in here this instant!

Paul Reiser

New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.

Paul Reiser

I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

Paul Gascoigne

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

Patrick Rothfuss

I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to fantasy stories than elves and wizards and goblin armies.

Patch Adams

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.