Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tahj Mowry

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

Susan Isaacs

Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her.

Caroline Knapp

I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly.

Victor LaValle

If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.

David Blunkett

Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.

Zach Braff

I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, and now I come back as an adult and I can really get the flavor of the city, and I love it.

Virginia Foxx

So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.

Ray Stevenson

People will be told it features graphic content and adult language,

Pet owners need to watch for clinical signs of respiratory problems and see their veterinarians if they spot any of the usual signs of a virus, such as runny eyes and nose or cough. Common viruses other than the flu can cause these signs in dogs, cats and birds. Many can be managed successfully in adult pets with proper supportive care.

Per capita measures of income are always a little bit distorted when you talk about places like Utah or Idaho, mainly because we have substantially more children per adult. We have in Utah 50 percent more children per adult than the national average, so any per capita or per-person measure of income, we'll always be on the low side.

permit such marketing to be directed toward adult smokers.

Richard Lewis

My target (speech) audience was both the youth and adults. But I wanted more of the adult audience to pay close attention because we grew up in a time where most of us are set in our ways and we need to get out of our boxes and give people chances.

Rafael Palmeiro

Nobody is more frustrated and disappointed in me than I am. Throughout my adult life, I have worked very hard on and off the field to live my life in an honorable way. All my accomplishments are now tainted, and many people have been hurt,

Nobody is as innocent as they used to be. You can't work in a world of wish fulfillment. This is an adult family comedy. You have to have some honesty and edge to be successful. We're reflecting existing behavior, not encouraging it.

John Ashcroft

Mr. Walker is an adult who made very serious decisions against the United States ... , ... No other individual has a right to impose an attorney on him or to choose an attorney for him.

Eliot Spitzer

Movies are an important part of popular culture. Every adult and child should be able to enjoy a film with family and friends, especially during the holiday season.

Mature themes and sexual content in games is huge. The adult game market is taking off like a rocket!

Maggie Stiefvater

One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.

Only a small minority of U.S. adult travelers is actually planning to cut back on travel this summer.

My first goal is to make the adult national team, then the Olympics in the same year. That would be exciting. A dream.

Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.

Lorrie Moore

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

Kara Lindsay

I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.

John Irving

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

Malorie Blackman

There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

Michael Fox

There are places not only with adult themes or a range of things like that -- I mean, put that aside for a second -- but just things where you go, 'Can you do that on TV?'

The only published, peer-reviewed study of secondary effects ... found that areas surrounding adult business actually reported less crime than areas in a control group.

I am surprised that folks in general seem a bit peeved that their minimum payment may soon be rising. I think it is a wonderful thing, frankly the first real pro-consumer move this industry has made in my adult lifetime.

Martin Kove

Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors.

Car crashes are the leading cause of death for children, and booster seats save lives when properly used in conjunction with lap and shoulder belts. Unfortunately, many children are put at risk when they are improperly restrained by a seat belt intended for an adult or older child and the booster seat phase is skipped.

Rick Riordan

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again.

Now our clients can continue doing what they do best -- writing and producing hit television shows with the knowledge that their speech is protected. The court found that the speech which the plaintiff was challenging was not directed at her and did not concern her. Quite simply, she was complaining about the back-and-forth sexual discussions of male and female writers on an adult situation comedy.

Given that there is no evidence this man has ever lost his cool in his adult life, I don't think they are going to lay a finger on him.