Famous Quotes & Sayings

Viggo Mortensen

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

Victoria Beckham

I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.

Victoria Azarenka

That's what I love about kids: they don't care about anything else but who you are as a person.

Victor Garber

When I was a kid, I didn't collect stamps, or weird toys, or anything. I don't even have music - I don't even have a CD collection. So that's not really my thing.

Stephanie Cutter

It's one thing to work women into your talking points. It's another to tell them how you are going to educate their kids, how you are going to ensure they get health care, how we are going to rebuild infrastructure, how they are going to get equal pay.

Vanessa Mae

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

Vanilla Ice

All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me "Vanilla" - like "Hey, Vanilla" and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.

Tucker Max

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

Sutton Foster

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.

Sutton Foster

I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.

Susan Olsen

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

Susan Olsen

These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.

Susan Olsen

As a little kid, I suppose I was a little weird.

Susan Wojcicki

Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.

Susan Wiggs

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

Susannah McCorkle

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

Susannah McCorkle

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.

Suzanne Collins

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.

Tarsem Singh

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

Taron Egerton

I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids films.

Steve Toltz

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

Stephen Lang

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

Stephen Malkmus

Traditionally, when we lived here [in Portland], we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing, all different kinds of music. I don't listen to any of those Internet radio things. I have iTunes on my thing, but I've never bought a single thing on it. Except for "Call Me Maybe," for the kids or whatever. Carly Rae Jepsen.

Stephen Malkmus

When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.

Stephen Malkmus

I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."

Stephen King

A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

Stephen King

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

Stephen King

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

Stephen King

What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Rud, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read what they're trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they're trying to keep out of your brains. Because that's exactly what you need to know.

Stephen King

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Stephen King

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

Stephen King

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Stephen King

I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best.He was my model as a kid. If there are people out there that want to write, all you need to do is read 20 of his stories to get an idea what it takes to make a story kick over.