Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Tobolowsky

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Stephen Stills

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there

Stephen Vincent Benet

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

Tanit Phoenix

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

Tania Raymonde

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

Tana French

I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.

Tana French

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

Tamora Pierce

We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.

Tamora Pierce

He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own. - Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage

Tamera Mowry

Someone who I would consider an ultimate beauty and style icon would be Jennifer Lopez. She is absolutely ageless, and she has reinvented herself so many times throughout the years and yet is absolutely flawless and stays true to herself.

Tammin Sursok

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

Takashi Murakami

I would like to live to 120, because conceptually, people can survive to 120. Every 20 years, it changes. So maybe, in the next 20 years people can go to space. I don’t know what the next revolution will be. I want to watch.

Tabitha Soren

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

Tabitha Soren

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

Tab Hunter

A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

T Bone Burnett

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

Sylvia Plath

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

Sylvia Plath

I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.

Sylvia Plath

I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.

Sylvia Plath

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.

Rosanne Cash

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

Rosanne Cash

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

Ronald Biggs

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

Ronald Biggs

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

Ron Suskind

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

Ron White

I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He's probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can't say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.

Ron White

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

Ron Fournier

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

Samir Geagea

I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.

Samantha Power

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Rupert Everett

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

Rumi

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

Tom Peters

The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.