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.

Newt Gingrich

What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

Katarina Witt

When you're young, you travel with your parents. When you get older you bring your husband with you. But when you get my age you bring your physical therapist.

John Hutton

We want people of all ages from every section of the community to be involved.

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.

Charlie Skelton

We want everyone of every age to see everything.

Herman Edwards

We were approached by his agent at the Senior Bowl. We visited - a very short visit. We haven't heard from his agent at this point in time. I haven't heard from Terrell.

Charles Taze Russell

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

George Lopez

We have so many people in the camp that it's difficult for everybody to find a porta-potty. With 90,000 people at a game, you can imagine 10,000 standing in line.

E. O. Wilson

We want people to look twice to save a life. That's our campaign slogan.

Renaldo Wynn

We were already rotating a lot before we signed Andre. I'll go to camp with the mentality that I'm still the starter, but I know I'm going to get a lot of snaps whether I start or not.

Alan Keyes

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

Anna Hadingham

We have run a number of campaigns in the past and have worked on a number of war issues, but there's virtually nothing going on on this campus in terms of human rights. This is a timely opportunity to work on a global and local level. There is a big refugee population here in the Syracuse area.

David Birdsell

The expectations game can make a lot of difference, ... But people are looking at what the campaigns say much more skeptically this year.

Willie Randolph

We've still got a lot to learn about each other, a lot to learn about winning. It just feels good to get that first year out of the way. It feels good knowing coming into this camp that you know your personnel better and feel more comfortable with what you expect.

Martin Henderson

When I'm not acting, I'm usually sailing or camping or exploring or travelling or spending time in New Zealand.

Larry Bush

The people I've talked to say the situation in the coal camps is getting worse. Blasts are shaking their houses, and dust and mud covers the roads and everything. There is nothing preventative about the new laws they passed. It was just an after-the-fact thing. It does nothing to protect the people.

Rob Sheffield

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

Scott Bakula

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.

Jim Carter

One thing I feel sure of is that the standards CBS has set in the past will be maintained.

Andrew Tyndall

CBS News has already righted itself...It turns out they had all the talent they needed in house.

Leslie Moonves

CBS is very pleased to have forged this partnership with Mitsubishi that will give American television viewers their first sustained exposure to high-definition television, ... This agreement, which allows us to present the majority of our primetime lineup in the highest definition television format, represents the most significant step any network has taken in HDTV and further establishes CBS' leadership in the transition to digital broadcasting.

Brad Adgate

CBS is obviously dealing from a position of strength. They've already renewed 14 shows, which is more than half of their prime-time schedule.

Ed Martin

CBS is doing really well and looking like an extremely classy network. It doesn't want to thoroughly humiliate itself.

Paul Jackson

CBS has already picked up the format for this spring, and we're also spending a few hundred thousand dollars making our own broadcast-quality pilot of the all-new Catchphrase.

Tim Winter

CBS had no intention of abiding by the terms of its own consent decree after it aired 'Without a Trace,' which had generated outcry from thousands of families. CBS should comply with the consent decree it signed and, if it's true to its word, should ensure that all its employees who were involved in the re-airing of 'Without a Trace' are suspended.

Tony Russa

We've won the division, and I think he's lost a little mental edge as far as concentration,

Siri Hustvedt

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

Al Pacino

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Andy Reid

We utilized him in training camp. We have to make sure that most of his concentration is on the tight end spot. But he is a guy we could use to get us through a game at fullback.

M.I.A.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

Brent Guy

Leon did a fine job of running the football. Toward the end of the game, he didn't do a few things we wanted him to do. He lost his concentration a little bit. But we're pretty pleased with the way he handled the game. He ran well and took some big hits. He's going to do nothing but get better.

Edie Bailey

Life is too short to waste our precious time with stress and frustration. We should concentrate instead on the many things we have to be grateful for.

Chris Turner

Carl let his concentration slip and he's got to learn from that.

Mason Young

Centauri made us run one step faster than we wanted to. Sometimes that takes you off balance, and we didn't have the concentration to finish off many of our shots.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Carol Moseley Braun

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

Carlos Mesa

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Carlos Mencia

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Carlos Mencia

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Carl Andre

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

C. S. Lewis

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

C. S. Lewis

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Chamlong Srimuang

We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not stubborn, we have the interest of the country in mind.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.

Aasif Mandvi

For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

Alan Shearer

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

Joseph Califano

The fact that so many dads are AWOL (absent) in their teens' lives increases the teens' risk of substance abuse,

Meghan Trainor

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

Shameik Moore

When I was 12, my dad took me to see 'You Got Served.' I walked out a whole different person.

Sharon Stone

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Tyler Ritter

I really got to see my dad enjoy every day that he was working. Everybody should be able to have this much fun when they go to work.

Tristan MacManus

I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.

Donovan Campbell

Ms. Willey features very prominently in our filing today.

Robert Scoble

On mobile, make sure Facebook's app can know where you are. That not only makes features like Nearby Friends possible but also makes your feed have a few items from your location.

Matthew Stewart

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Mark Hooker

musical theatre. The show features 15 feel-good songs celebrating the trials and tribulations of being naked.

Chris Stokes

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.

Devon Bostick

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

Brian Grazer

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.

Jim Allchin

There are literally thousands of features in this product.

Tom Jones

So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.

Jose Serrano

The poor were just left to fend for themselves.

Brian Cox

There is so much left of it to explore.

Logan Mankins

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

Jeremy Luke

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

Janis Joplin

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Brian Wilson

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

DJ Qualls

Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.

David Mitchell

Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.

Jane Birkin

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

Alan Rickman

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Akshay Kumar

Kareena Kapoor is my lucky charm

Chita Rivera

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

Brian Bosworth

I'd rather be good than lucky.

Carol Shields

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

Carlos Fuentes

Memory is satisfied desire.

C. S. Lewis

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

C. S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

Agnes Varda

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

Agnes Varda

Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.

Alan Sugar

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

Charlotte Bronte

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

Charlotte Bronte

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Drake Bell

I have a dog named Steve that lives at the studio.

Frances Townsend

We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Cheryl Hayashi

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Stanley Hauerwas

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

Andy Williams

I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Charles Dickens

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

William Shakespeare

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.

Edward Lear

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

Edward Lear

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

Bobby Jindal

Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.

Barbara Walters

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

William Shakespeare

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Arthur Miller

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

Carol Ann Duffy

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Jamie Bell

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

George Stephanopoulos

years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.

Chris Van Allsburg

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Dave Walker

Peter is not recovering from (plantar fasciitis), and we need him because hes our No. 1 runner,

Garry Davidson

Peter has said he wants to go on, which is great.

Pete Townshend

Peter Doherty is the ultimate rock 'n' roll nihilist, the ultimate rock 'n' roll f***wit.

Kevin Kelley

Peter does everything for us. He's probably one of the most underrated players out there.

Bible Bible

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7)

Elizabeth Edwards

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Aaliyah

I’m a survivor, and I can handle anything. I’m very confident about that.

Kurt Vonnegut

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

Francisco Paz

Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident.

Shane Price

It is important to us to say to victims and survivors of gunshots and violence that we are trying to do something.

Creed Bratton

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

Claire Cameron

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

Courtney Love

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Natalie Wood

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.