Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Weller

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.

I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going.

Peter Horton

I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth.

P. L. Travers

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

Pastor Maldonado

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

Prince Fielder

When I first started swinging a bat, I swung righty. So one time, my dad came home, and he wanted to see my batting stance. So I showed him. He says, 'You don't hit right-handed. You hit left-handed.' At that age I didn't even really think about it. Just like 'all right,' and I switched hands. He said I'd thank him later.

I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.

Patty Griffin

From the age of 12, I had an understanding that singing was something I loved to do more than anything, and I did say to myself, 'Why not?' But there were definitely some doubts along the way.

Patrick White

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.

Marcia Gay Harden

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

Sunidhi Chauhan

When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of 'Shastra.'

Susan Hampshire

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

Sue Townsend

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Rick Pitino

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer.

Ryan Gosling

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

Russell Crowe

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Viktor Yushchenko

Those who make such allegations have a responsibility to help law-enforcement agencies find the truth about all the circumstances. If they have hard facts and it is not populism, they should honestly pass this information to law-enforcement agencies,

To be honest, we were shocked. There was nothing on our agenda indicating we would even discuss the opener below Point Arena.

To be honest, there is not one leader from any political party who at the moment has the vision, the agenda or the program for resolving the problems in our nation.

Andre Agassi

To be here at an age when I can take in that sort of love (from the fans) and embrace it is a tremendous feeling, ... I'll never forget this. They can't take that away from me.

To be fair, he has a personal history of charitable works like this, so it's not as if this is some person making a desperate effort to rehabilitate his career by suddenly reshaping himself as a philanthropist. The problem is we live in such a cynical age that it really doesn't matter what his intentions are; this will be viewed in cynical terms.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it

Haley Osment

This one is perfect for this age for me.

This was a breakthrough because they (DOJ) realized that prevention needed to be addressed at an early age,

Stephen Manes

What's been revealed of Windows Vista is particularly sad. Defaulting to a mode that requires users to enter an administrative password before they can install programs? A security-enhancing idea, but one that's been around for ages in Apple's Mac OS X. Integrated search? Apple has it now. The Registry? There's no sign of that monstrosity in OS X, but it'll still be around in Windows Vista to drive users nuts. Copying the competition's good ideas and retaining a bad one that you actually did originate: That's innovation!

Dan Bartlett

What President Bush will outline is not only an agenda for America, but, obviously, an agenda for his own party to provide an optimistic forward-looking set of proposals.

What President Bush encountered was the rising tide of resentment, both popular and among leaders ... that the Bush agenda just does not jibe with Latin America,

What Point does is they target particular brands into particular age groups or economic groups. They watch the development of their stores carefully.

What people don't realize is that the classes are open to people ages 50 and up, and you don't have to be a member of the Senior Center or a resident of Windsor Locks.

Prince Charles

What is so distinctive of the great ages of faith surely was that they understood, as well as sacred texts ... the meaning of God's word for all time and its meaning for this time.