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

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Charles Dudley Warner

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Cher

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

Alain Ducasse

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

Edward Young

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

Elijah Wood

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Albert Einstein

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Harry Callahan

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

Jean Charest

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

Jodi Picoult

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.