Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents' circle was predominantly conservative, not just on Israel but on most political issues. Most of all, they were intensely (and this is a word I remember repeating in my own angry adolescent dialogues with myself) tribal.

Sarah Brown

Many measures of child and adolescent well-being have improved over the past decade but few as dramatically as teen pregnancy, ... On the occasion of the National Campaign's 10th anniversary, we will celebrate the power of prevention, applaud the tremendous progress the nation has made on an issue many once considered intractable, thank all those who have helped the National Campaign along the way, and underscore the fact that the problem of teen pregnancy is far from solved.

John Glover

One of the strongest things in the world is the father/son bond, and that's what they are drawing on. It also applies to the whole series because of Clark and that awkward adolescent period we all remember. Even the popular kid feels that and can relate. More and more adults are catching on and say, 'I watch the show and like it'.

Tracy Kidder

From my experience, sure, if you were a truck driver, you could be incredibly unlucky, ... But I had the feeling that I was safer than I would have been back here as a late adolescent with a car.

Lois Lowry

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

Cary Fukunaga

'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.

Ben Mendelsohn

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

David Chase

'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

Chris Robinson

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

Robert Osborne

When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.

Marco Brambilla

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.

Carl Jacobs

We're not catching anyone off guard this year. We're the hunted and everyone is looking forward to knocking us off.

Cynthia Price

We're not calling anyone a suspect. At this time, the Richmond Police Department has not identified a suspect, but we have several persons of interest. We've interviewed several people extensively.

Jo Koy

Man, I don't know how it was for other comics, but that one appearance has changed my life. Everyone knows 'The Tonight Show,' no matter young or old. You don't have to beg anyone to watch ... they just turn it on.

Leonard Johnson

Like anyone would do, I said you take his leg, you take whatever you can to save his life.

John Andrews

Like all alcoholics, I would start New Year's Eve promising to control how much I drank. In the morning, I'd wake up hoping to God I hadn't hurt anyone on the drive home. It's the hardest time of year for recovering substance abusers because you're surrounded by overindulgence -- it's impossible to escape, and there's little empathy for those who have struggled with addiction.

Keith Rogers

Luckily I had somebody to help me in the street that kept calling and calling and calling that's the only way I got out. If you don't have anyone to help you, you're just lost in the system.

Rebecca Taylor

One scene with David Carradine required seven old men as extras, ... So, I rounded up these guys, and they ended up having a great time on the set. The scene was delayed, so they got to hang out with Carradine for a few hours, and he had lunch with them.

Ernie Els

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.

Victoria Beckham

My family is my first priority but I don't think that means I should have to give up work. I am lucky that David is very supportive.

Ty Law

Maybe the next game they will try me more. It's up to myself and David to show them that, hey, you have to go to the other side.

Richard Farnsworth

No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.

Andrei Pavel

I did not have anything to offer in the final and to be honest David was just too good.

Adam Young

I did my first round of chemotherapy on Monday. David knows about all of the tests going on.

Robert Gottlieb

I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it was, but that isn't surprising, since I can't really remember the first half of a David Parsons program while I'm watching the second half.

M. Wolfe

We needed a big play. I threw it up, David go under it touchdown!

Jeff Greenfield

I got into television because I hated it so, ... And I thought ... there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Dan Campbell

She threw a fabulous game -- I'm very pleased with the way she threw. She showed me a lot. She's a competitor, but she really showed me a lot.

Kimora Lee Simmons

It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.

Denny Green

Tony is a fabulous coach, ... He was ready for his head job. I just think it's all about opportunity.

Bill Kelly

Wow, all I can say is it's a fabulous contribution. If I knew I wouldn't tell you, but I would go and thank her personally.

George Best

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

Brian Eno

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

Mike Modano

J.R.'s had a fabulous career. He's put up some great numbers. He had a great start to his career, but mine was slower. He's always been a great player.

Rodger Schmidt

He's a fabulous young talent, but he didn't just fall off a tree. He was built, not born.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Robert Hass

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.

Robert Hass

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

Tao Lin

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Charles Olson

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edgar Allan Poe

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Johnny Pesky

If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words.

Janine Turner

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.