Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents' circle was predominantly conservative, not just on Israel but on most political issues. Most of all, they were intensely (and this is a word I remember repeating in my own angry adolescent dialogues with myself) tribal.

Sarah Brown

Many measures of child and adolescent well-being have improved over the past decade but few as dramatically as teen pregnancy, ... On the occasion of the National Campaign's 10th anniversary, we will celebrate the power of prevention, applaud the tremendous progress the nation has made on an issue many once considered intractable, thank all those who have helped the National Campaign along the way, and underscore the fact that the problem of teen pregnancy is far from solved.

John Glover

One of the strongest things in the world is the father/son bond, and that's what they are drawing on. It also applies to the whole series because of Clark and that awkward adolescent period we all remember. Even the popular kid feels that and can relate. More and more adults are catching on and say, 'I watch the show and like it'.

Tracy Kidder

From my experience, sure, if you were a truck driver, you could be incredibly unlucky, ... But I had the feeling that I was safer than I would have been back here as a late adolescent with a car.

Lois Lowry

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

Cary Fukunaga

'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.

Ben Mendelsohn

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

David Chase

'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

Chris Robinson

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

Alexandra Adornetto

Molly: So how do you think of Bryce Hamilton crowd so far? Boys hot enough for you? Bethany: I wouldn't say hot. Most of them seem to have a normal body temperature.

Rick Perlstein

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

Malorie Blackman

I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

Mark Hummel

Man, I didn't want to see it when we're up 21-nothing. But, we got something done when it counted. We've obviously got to correct a lot of mistakes, but the boys feel good about winning right now.

Doug Pederson

Man, I always felt like high school football was where I needed to be. Having three boys helps that decision. Here at Calvary, I know I can have them in school with me and coach them when they're older. It's one of the reasons I came to Calvary. Stan is the same way. He's got daughters there.

Nick Swisher

Let's get those left-field bleacher boys ready to go. I had a great time in right last year, but left field is where it's always been.

Gerry Fleming

Second place is on the line here, boys!

Kathleen Blanco

Send Bush here and we'll make him a po' boy and tell him to leave us alone,

Abdul Aziz

Security forces opened unprovoked fire on boys who were playing cricket in a field.

Robert Mankoff

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

Dennis Franz

Leave It to Beaver.' I could relate to being that age. It also kind of was an ideal world, at least at that time. I look at it now, and it wasn't very politically correct. But I felt all warm and fuzzy when watching the show. I used to read Little Lulu comics for the same reason. It was just a perfect world.

Jim Lee

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

Steve Hofstetter

So many comics have this view of 'Oh, he gets work, he took that work away from me,'

Diane Nelson

Motion comics take the underlying physical book material and enhance or modify it slightly enough to make it unique and, we think, best-suited for a digital environment.

Charles Richards

My love of comics did start with anime.

Doug Ferrari

One of the things I'd heard a lot was, 'He was the funniest comic we've ever had here in the six years we've been open, and we never want to see him back here again,'

Robert Thompson

One thing that made this comic territory was that there was very quickly somebody they could go after, and somebody they could go after in a separate, safe kind of way.

Nelson Mandela

My hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead the youth to the joy of reading good books. That joy has been mine all my life, and it is one I wish for all South Africans.

Mark Bradford

Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.

Jamar Nesbit

Lucky enough, I kind of figured if it did flood, I was going to be gone at least a week,

Donald Lipski

liberating the figure from the marble that imprisons it.

Tom Murphy

Let's see if we can figure out a way out of here.

Cao Shengjie

Let's pray to God the figure will grow.

Jason Schrotberger

Last year, people wanted to get under the hood and figure out which products would wow us next.

Terrence Holt

leave it to y'all in the media to figure out who got singled out. This is still a team game and what's said between these walls stays between these walls.

Keith Dambrot

Mentally, you figure out that if you're not strong enough, you need to get in the weight room. The hard part is all that skill and knowledge and ability, and he's got that. It's a tribute to their staff to find a guy like that who slipped through the cracks.

Rasheed Wallace

Me and Chauncey were talking in the locker room. We are trying to figure out some way to recognize him.

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Russell Crowe

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

Hamid Karzai

Lots of people had much misinformation. The second report, the official report, will be much more accurate,

Rose Fong

Lots of people come in and tell us this is where they had their first date.

Patricia Green

Lots of people are moving out, ... I'm not the type to move out. I won't move out. Where would I go? Where will I go with these two old men?

Michelle Tea

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

Charlie McCreevy

Lots of member states seem to be wanting to put up unjustified barriers." ()

Judah Friedlander

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

Dan Gelber

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Kathleen Blanco

There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Jochen Behle

We are sorry that it had come to this. It's a relief for Evi now.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.