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.

Jimmye Laycock

Last year, they played really tough and they've got most of those people back, including their quarterback. It should be an exciting game.

Dan Wheldon

Scott and I already were talking that we want to make a big impact next year. That's a goal. I had a lot of success this season, and I'm looking to do the same (in '06). It will be a very exciting season in general. There will be a lot of competitive cars, so we'll have to be on top of our game.

Adam Topper

Sean is going to be a very exciting runner to watch this fall.

Roma Downey

Season number seven! It's been so exciting for us. When we first began, we were like the little train that could... and we did! We're terribly excited! It will be an interesting season for us, I think.

Chauncey Billups

Maybe we're not the most exciting team, but we know what it takes to win. That's what we do.

Jim Wilson

One of our goals has always been to provide fans with an exciting race program that is run fairly and efficiently.

Alice Hamilton

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

Brian VanGorder

Obviously this is an exciting day for myself and my staff.

Ryan Howard

When I look at us, I see a young, exciting team. And with the guys we picked up, I can't wait to get to spring training and see it all unfold.

Brad Tolinski

I see more women playing guitars on Nickelodeon, which is probably more influential.

John Reynolds

I'm very selective about whose guitars I'll see.

Ryan Key

On this album, we took the opportunity to show people that hey, we like to make real music. We're not just plugging in our guitars and singing the catchiest melody to sell records.

Steve James

Very probably this was an idealistic youth who took things too far.

Melvin Maddocks

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

Eric Bogosian

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

John Cusack

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Sophia Amoruso

I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.

Eddie Vedder

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Anna Sui

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

Chuck Berry

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Melissa McCarthy

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

Malcolm Mclaren

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Henry Rollins

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

John Rzeznik

Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.

Alexandra Fuller

But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.

William Wordsworth

Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.

Keith Mason

Like any other kids, we all got into trouble. Having rock fights, things like that.

Pat Simmons

So it's a little R&B, a little rock 'n' roll, a little blues, a little folk, a little salsa, everything.

Mike McCready

My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

Charles Portis

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

Dimitar Sasselov

We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

Eddie Van Halen

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

David Bowie

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.

Tate Casey

Shannon (Desmond) is just phenomenal. When it's a big game, she seems to step up and get it done for us.

Jay Haas

I'd like it to go back to no carts. It just seems right. It seems like if spectators can go out and walk, we can, too. It's part of the competition.

Marc Chouinard

I don't know who did the schedule, but he seems to stick them in when we're on a roll.