Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.

Peggy Sell

We want everyone to feel that their library card is special, regardless of their age. We want them to know that, as soon as you get a library card, it becomes part of your life.

Evan Hendricks

Ultimately, it's a human rights issue in the information age.

J. Taylor

We're in an information age, yet from a public notification perspective, we're still ... in the Stone Age,

Lee Rainie

We live in a media age. In many respects, it is more important for people to be known in the media culture than to make money in the media culture.

Michael DiSanto

We have a recreation program now in town. The kids are learning at an earlier age. The people at the recreation program are doing an outstanding job, getting the kids ready for high school. That's another goal.

Pat Camden

We're looking for a male, white, who's between 25 and 30 years of age, about 6 feet tall with thin build. He was laughing and driving a blue four-door vehicle.

Mario Batali

When I got to college age, my parents suggested, why don't you go to cooking school instead of going to a traditional college? I said that's not for me. That's ridiculous.

Germaine Greer

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Hans Tietmeyer

We want to reach an overall concept in the foreseeable future,

Ollanta Humala

We want more investors to come, to rescue the concept of corporate social responsibility. We will be a government that respects foreign investments, that has a profound respect for private property and freedom of expression.

Michael Franc

The extent to which he used the State of the Union to launch and define the 'ownership society' concept is important because if you take it to its natural extreme, the ownership society would essentially replace the 'Great Society. That's a major shift from where we've been.

Richard Roundtree

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed.

Theodor W. Adorno

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Todrick Hall

I worked with Kathy Rigby, and it's a concept called 'Peter Perry': it's all of Katy Perry's songs telling the story of Peter Pan. Kathy was so sweet, and it was such a cool experience to meet her and work with her and use the set that I had watched on television for so many years.

Jerry Williams

When I was approached I realized that this has to be the face of the future not only for education but also for the health of American children. If the concepts are proven, Rochester will consider expanding such an experimental environment in one of our elementary schools.

John Piper

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

Jermaine Dye

When he first hit it, I thought it was probably gone. It had just gotten cold. Maybe earlier when it was warm it would have gone out.

Steve Barrow

We've seen some selling earlier this week, but a good number will show the general strength of the U.S. economy and help the dollar. Payrolls will be the key indicator as far as the Fed is concerned.

Therese Fowler

No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.

Erich Bergen

A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.

Matt Bowman

We're in a funk, definitely. I don't even know what to say. We can hit the ball. We proved that earlier in the season. But we're still confident. We've got our heads up and we're looking toward tomorrow.

John Gleason

We're looking to a better fourth quarter as opposed to the earlier part of the year.

Christopher Howell

We're good at putting together one or two good hits to start a rally or keep one going. We just need to be able to do it earlier in the game so we don't have to sweat it for five innings.

William Giles

We're still comfortable with the performance and expect Montecito to offer a 2X performance improvement over earlier versions of Itanium.

Eduardo Sanchez

We're seeing a lot of influenza earlier in the season than usual,

Lee Kuan Yew

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

Claire Danes

Money is only irrelevant if you have it,

Judy Kirkpatrick

He is irrelevant to the discussion. He needs to stay out. He needs to stay in California.

Charles Lamb

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

Kevan Barlow

I know he's going to want to probably show us up. He's going to try to, but we're going to prepare for him just like we prepare for (the Rams') Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce. ... I'm sure he was upset, (and) he had some things to say when he left, but that's irrelevant to us in this locker room.

John Charles Polanyi

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

Carlos Mesa

I have reached a limit in my work.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We know how they play, they're very stingy defensively. We're just going to have to match that. We have to limit their chances, try not to give them any odd-man chances, and score when we get the opportunities.

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Erin McKean

You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

Nayvadius Cash

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

Edmund Burke

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Edward Said

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Carol Vorderman

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

Charles Caleb Colton

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

Diane Watson

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

David Krumholtz

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

Dave Barry

You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.

Jane Bryant Quinn

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Alan Jackson

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

Al Pacino

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

Aaron Tveit

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

Michael Collier

We're still in the preliminary stages of getting information.

Dena Crews

We're still in the development stage for that.

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Bob Dylan

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get stage fright.

Geisha Williams

We're in the tough stage of the restoration.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,

Jimmy Kennedy

We've got a new attitude. We want to stop the run.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Ed Pastor

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.