Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Caleb Colton

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Jomo Gbomo

We have no intention of executing them ever and will only keep them for as long as our demands are not attended to.

Nathaniel Smith

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

Charles Brewer

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Oleg Cassini

The planning was constant, the logistical invasion of every country she visited, every party she attended the cloth, the weather, the sensitivity of the people and what they wanted to see her in.

Ric Keller

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

Samantha Shannon

I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.

Thomas J. Sargent

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

John Krasinski

I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional... waiter, for 3 years.

Julie Mitchell

We had Cathy over from Oahu to read in 2004, and not only was the event well attended but her reading was riveting. After sharing her excellent poetry, she engaged in a very interesting talk-story session with the audience, and then signed books and met audience members one-on-one. It was such a successful event that we knew we wanted to have her back again.

Bryan Robson

The possibility of playing Birmingham in the next round is an exciting proposition for fans in the midlands - but I've not looked too far ahead, because we've got to get past Reading first. I am confident we can do a job in the replay, and I hope the team will see things through.

Ernie Wise

We were travelling from Birmingham to Coventry during the blitz. Eric's mother suggested that we should try to become a double act.

Susan Terpay

There are two corridors we?re using to go around the line. Between Birmingham and Atlanta, we usually run 25 trains a day, so it?s causing some delays.

Charles Hazlewood

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

Andrew Young

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

Jerry Morris

There are no street lights out here, so I couldn't see the vehicle to get a description. It was just a bit unnerving. It upset my wife and it's a bit ironic that we moved here several years ago from Birmingham to get away from this type of thing, only to have it happen here.

H. Hunt

On paper the Birmingham event was our worst showing of the season. But it showed the true character of the team that we stayed with it and had a good race car for Robert in Round 10. Electrical problems are the most frustrating to deal with because they're so hard to find. It's not like a suspension problem, that's relatively easy to diagnose.

JoLaine Jones

My friend from Birmingham invited me to lunch with a bunch of folks from Florida. That's when I met Dave.

Clare Short

But we had the Birmingham pub bombings in which 20 something people died and I know obviously this is worse but 20 is a big number.

Sandra Cisneros

I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.

Christian Serratos

I have a lot of 'Twilight' gear. I love the hoodies that say 'vampires' and 'werewolves,' but I refuse to get one because I can't choose; I have to have them both. I have the Team Edward T-shirt, but I also have Team Jacob.

George Foreman

I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.'

Kevin Spacey

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.

Rod Broadway

We don't know much about Edward Waters. And we can't know for sure how some of our new guys are going to play until they get into a game.

Sarah Harrison

My links to WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden mean I am treated as a threat and can't return to the U.K.

David Strathairn

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Chris Jordan

I grew up looking at Edward Weston and Henri Cartier-Bresson,

Mark Gatiss

The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.

Luke Nosek

If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.

Chanel Iman

When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

I was very fortunate, because I don't think many people get to spend time with their great-grandfathers. So, he passed away when I was 15, so I spent a lot of time with him. We lived together. He traveled a lot, but when he was here, we lived together.

Evangeline Lilly

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

Proverb Proverb

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Wendy Miller

She doesn't seem to have been the society type or one to flaunt her wealth, but she lived well.

Robert Owens

We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.

Tom Watson

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

Viktor Vekselberg

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Reuben Jr

We want to keep this project local. There are people locally who will invest.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Keith Cooper

We want to keep it local and we want to keep it Canadian.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Susan Hill

We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Ed Koch

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

Don Logan

We have no suburbs - we're an island.

Lofa Tatupu

I'm a Massachusetts, suburb kid. I didn't put much thought into it.

Douglas Wood

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.

Linda Hanson

In terms of a suburban city, we are a very old neighborhood.