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.

Tom Wilkinson

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

Tom Wilkinson

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

Tom Wilkinson

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

Tom Wilkinson

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

Tom Wilkinson

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Tom Wilkinson

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Tom Wilkinson

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

Tom Wilkinson

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

Tom Wilkinson

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Alan Keyes

The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

Alan Keyes

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

Charlie Crist

I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business.

Charles Stross

Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers can carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

Brady Corbet

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

Dianne Feinstein

So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year.

Dianne Feinstein

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

Dianne Feinstein

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

Dianne Feinstein

The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Drew Brees

There are a lot of reasons to be motivated.

Scott Bullock

There are many reasons to support an alternative site,

Bob Mould

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

Chuck Klosterman

Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

James Hetfield

Music is the soundtrack to my life.

Jodi Picoult

Every life has a soundtrack.

Alex Turner

I just don't think I'm equipped to soundtrack the times. There might be someone out there who can do that, but I haven't cracked it.

Martin Scorsese

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Nathan East

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.