Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Swartz

The adults were completely wrong.

Kristin Matthews

The reality is, just like with adult books, a big name makes for an easier booking. Any time you're booking an author for a four-and-a-half to five-minute segment, if you're dealing with someone who's done television or comes with a track record, they are a known quantity. They know they have to have a funny or a touching story.

Sharon Stone

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

Sharon Stone

I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life

Sarah Steele

I got so much out of 'The To-Do List.' This is a joke that I say about myself sometimes, in terms of my film career: I feel like I'm always playing the kid in serious adult movies. So, for me, it was so wonderful to suddenly be working with other people my age who were doing this on film.

Aasif Mandvi

I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

Terry Hayes

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

Edward Carey

Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.

Enrico Colantoni

In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Henry Lewis

We have people who are willing to chain themselves to that house to prevent them from tearing it down if we have to,

Ken Bacon

The extent to which disparaging speech or expression with respect to sexual orientation occurs or is tolerated by individuals in the chain of command will be assessed.

Reinhard Buetikofer

There is a long chain of diametrically opposed positions, not least on social issues.

Tim Flock

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.

Kim Cattrall

A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

Kurt Burkhart

There are some climbs but not much for these riders. A lot of those guys will probably be going up in their big chain rings a lot of these climbs.

Gabrielle Union

I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.

James Calvin

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

Tony Hawk

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

Tracy McMillan

We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.

Brian Eno

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Robert Galvan

Venezuela is serving as a model of respect for indigenous peoples and their right to culture, land and sovereignty.

Dave Douglas

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Ball

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Karen Russell

I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid.

Paul Hawken

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

Lawrence Lindsey

huge economic and ecological repercussions down the road.

Jim Hall

The whole ecological system in the forest here is very much imbalance.

Richard Meritzer

It's a great thing to do. It's ecological and it's healthy.

E. Hurley

It's sort of like hearing a rock star is coming. He's not just talking about traditional ecological knowledge. He's actually doing it.

Richard Wilkinson

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

Bram Fischer

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

Barbara Kingsolver

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

Ashley Montagu

Hatred is love frustrated.

Berthold Auerbach

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Juvenal

An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.

Camille Paglia

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

C. J. Mahaney

Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

Bertolt Brecht

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Erik Hassle

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

Frank Sr

We have his PlayStation hooked up. We are trying to keep him as comfortable as possible.

Robert Richardson

She was hooked up to an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine to keep her alive, and so they said that transplant was the only option.

Brian Regan

Hooked on Phonics worked for me

Charlotte Lamb

Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.

Scott Rudin

I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.

Jeff Pacheco

Time could be wasted when (the individuals operating the AED) are getting machine hooked up, when the individual doesn't need an AED.

Hannah Kent

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

Sophie Hannah

I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.

William Shakespeare

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

Barbara Deming

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

Jane Fonda

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,

Michael Chertoff

My judgment was that we had a battlefield commander, ... To go down there, I would have been doing Mike Brown's job.

Ed Durkin

Shareholders will be able to make better judgments about compensation, and that can translate into how you vote for directors.

Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

John Brady

Let's be honest, what are we? Twelve and five? We've played 17 games. I think we ought to reserve those kind of judgments and statements to much later down the road.

Barbara Sher

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Hemant Shah

Until we see some resolution of these issues, I think Merck and Pharmacia's stock will remain under pressure,

Max Heindel

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Capt. Boney

We're just going to have to find the right person out there with the right information. They can remain anonymous.

Li Hui

I don't think you can write the state sector off. They will remain a big contributor to GDP.

Saudi Arabia

I didn't want to talk to them. I had a right to remain silent.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Laura Wade

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Brian Aldiss

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Demetri Martin

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Agnes Repplier

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

David Rakoff

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Jamie Redknapp

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

Bruce Catton

Early youth is a baffling time

Baz Luhrmann

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

Charles Fourier

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Dean Koontz

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

Elizabeth Strout

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

Chris Evans

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.