Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

John Caudwell

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

Ed Pien

My interest in the potency of fear comes from my Taiwanese childhood in which fear of ghosts was used to shape my values.

Jennifer Mullin

Obviously, we want to see more dollars put to early childhood education and . . . teacher salaries. He looks forward to working the differences out.

Dennis Potter

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Denis Johnson

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

The Years

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.

Bernard Berenson

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Dave Pelzer

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

Kevin Mitnick

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast.

Andrea Lewis

Now, the way in which we send that information will be by secure and encrypted electronic transfer.

Linda Ronstadt

I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain.

Peter Nelson

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access.

Peter Nelson

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in the electronic village all the village-idiots have internet access.

Philippe Petit

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.

Troy Erickson

Since seniors are less likely to stay in touch with innovations in technology they are more vulnerable to electronic crime.

Tom Golisano

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.

William Safire

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Alison Goate

One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.

Dorothy Sanders

One team tried to put a box-and-one on Monica. Another team tried to double-team the post. Each time somebody tries to shut down one particular player or area, the other parts of the team have stepped up.

Jeffrey Bryant

One who has never been tempted with a particular sin can never feel proud for staying pure of it.

Sergey Lavrov

must be aimed at making this happen, not making any threat which at this particular stage is not appropriate.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Warren Littlefield

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

Sean Booth

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Dominic Chianese

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

Nicole Polizzi

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

David Dunn

We can always use more radios and more frequencies.

A. N. Wilson

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

Al Lewis

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

Bill Maher

Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

Aisha Tyler

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Billy Gibbons

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Lisa Bonet

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

Source Unknown

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Rachel Boston

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Eric Roberts

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

Paul R. Ehrlich

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Gever Tulley

Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

Eric Hoffer

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

Will Rogers

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.