Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Crutcher

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

Chris Evans

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

Charles Spurgeon

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Diane Kruger

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

Dennis Ritchie

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

Dennis Prager

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Debra Wilson

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Elbert Hubbard

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

Alexandra Fuller

In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

Alexandra Fuller

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

Alexandra Fuller

There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.

Erik Solheim

Let us keep expectations at a realistic level.

Dutch Proverb

One should not put of thing untill tomorrow, that one can realize today.

Hiroshi Kamide

No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Chris Crutcher

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

Chris Crutcher

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

Michael Stipe

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

Marjorie Belka

One time I went to pet it, and it nipped at me.

Eleanor Mondale

There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.

Julia Glass

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Ian Mckellen

If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

Simon Fowler

I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights.

William Kircher

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.