Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Earl Jones

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

Jarvis Cocker

Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

Janet Fitch

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

Janet Evanovich

The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled. Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna have to try it out at the seniors meeting.

Our seniors really stepped up. They've been in big games. They do the little things it takes to win.

Our seniors have been able to do so much.

Michelle Harrison

The seniors set a new standard for our school. We're going to try to keep the tradition up that we just started.

Brad Smith

A lot of seniors have been there and want to go out with a win.

This just hurts. I didn't want my senior year to end like this.

Herb Kohl

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

Henry David Thoreau

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Jill Scott

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

Jake Shimabukuro

The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

Evan Davis

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

Henry Mintzberg

We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their problems, he is destined to become more so. He is driven to brevity, fragmentation, and superficiality in his tasks, yet he cannot easily delegate them because of the nature of his information.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

Fuzzy Zoeller

The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

Christopher Dodd

Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

Gabe Newell

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

George W. Bush

We say to seniors, we understand how important prescription drug coverage, so prescription drugs will be an ingrinable part of the Medicare plan.

George W. Bush

We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner. This network runs a poison and explosive training camp in northeast Iraq, and many of its leaders are known to be in Baghdad.

George W. Bush

During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.

Jessica Walter

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

Jeff Bingaman

I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.

Gil Scott-Heron

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

George Carlin

Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!

Jon Corzine

I don't think that's lame. I don't actually think seniors think that's lame,

Jim Gerlach

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

Jim Gerlach

It is vital that we communicate to seniors their options regarding prescription drug assistance.

Jim Gerlach

Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.

Jim Gerlach

Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs.

Jim Gerlach

Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.