Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Chabon

Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away.

Michael Angarano

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

Michiel Huisman

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.

Michelle Williams

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

Michio Kaku

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

Michel Gondry

Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.

Michel Gondry

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

Michael J. Fox

I have now is whenever my kids say, "Can you look at this?" or "Can I ask you something?" or "Can you come here for a minute?" no matter what I am doing, I say yes instead of saying, "Just a sec." They never abuse the privilege, and I never once regretted it. What they took me away to do was never less important than what I was doing already.

Michael J. Fox

If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.

Michael J. Fox

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

Michael J. Fox

Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.

Michael J. Fox

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

Michael Jordan

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish. I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.

Michael Jordan

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

Michael Jordan

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

Martha Wainwright

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

Martha Stewart

We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders.

Martha Stewart

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Mark Ruffalo

The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.

Mark Ruffalo

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

Mark Ruffalo

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

Mark Ruffalo

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

Mark Ruffalo

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

Johnny Depp

Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all.

When vastly wealthy people say, 'I'm not leaving my kids any money,' it's typically not true.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

If we had a magic wand, every school would be where parents want to send kids and kids want to go. Pragmatically, we need to phase it in.

Jerry Spinelli

Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.

Jerry Seinfeld

Boy, I miss the days they made toys that could kill a kid.

Jeff Kinney

I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to make them laugh.

Jennifer Lopez

My main priority now is that my kids are happy; that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority -- even above myself.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if you were shooting pool when your kids were born.

Jacqueline Carey

What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?