Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Thompson

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

James Polshek

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

Michael Kinsley

I have always enjoyed the myth of The New Republic's golden age. The magazine is still very much in the Washington mix. It doesn't necessarily move the debate, but I think it can stir things up.

I have been busy my whole life and I learned at a young age time management when balancing sports and school.

George Tenet

I have analysts in my building who are convinced that that's exactly what they were, ... and analysts with the Defense Intelligence Agency who tell me the opposite.

I have been a change agent and made decisions that have kept us competitive.

Orrin Hatch

I have become convinced that, for conscientious and reasonable defenders of the Second Amendment, it is not enough to simply oppose the gun-control communities' legislative agenda which safeguards the right to keep and bear arms,

Marcia Gay Harden

I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.

Jamaica Kincaid

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

Wladimir Klitschko

I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.

I have never, in my career, seen a situation where the age (of the victims) ranges from 79 down to 11,

I have never, as far as I can remember, given one moment's thought as to whether any drawing that I was doing was for adults or children. I have never changed one conception or line or detail to suit the supposed age of the reader. And I have never, in what writing I have done, changed one word or phrase of text because I felt it might be over the heads of children. I have never, I hope, Insulted the intelligence of any child. And with God and my publishers willing, I promise them that I never will.

I have absorbed Jagger Motors and will be using that location for my car rentals. And I am the only car rental agency in the Cape to offer rentals without a credit card.

Lesley Manville

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.

I had to treat it as if they were just another team in free agency. I think, more than anything, the day we knew there wasn't a deal there was just a lot of uncertainty in my head because free agency brings a lot of uncertainty. You really don't have any idea where you're going to go.

I have 2,000 gospel singers and 35 Mardi Gras Indian tribes. You can't just call an agent and order them up.

Bob Peck

I had quad bypass surgery in 2003. There are three of us in (two) age groups that have had quad bypass surgery. I was getting shortness of breath. In swimming you know when things aren't right.

I felt like we as a station group cared about employees, cared about the viewers in an extraordinary way. It kind of boosts your spirits in this age of downsizing and corporations treating employees like things.

I think it sent a huge message to every free agent and particularly the African-Americans. I think it opened a lot of doors for us.

Jeff Sessions

I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

Julianne Moore

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.'

Tim Brown

I think it's always difficult, no matter what game you're playing, for your team to get pumped up and motivated to play a team you beat pretty bad earlier in the season. I don't care what age level or what the sport is.

James Morgan

I think it shows how many agencies United Way is involved with and the breadth of their support for these agencies,

It cost them the interest of every generation that came of age after 1960. If it's not on that box, it's not in people's consciousness.

It could hurt us with the bond-rating agencies if we change the revenue horse in midstream.

John Simmons

It continues to fall from a high of about 900,000 new buyers to the segment in 1994 to about 500,000 in 2005. Additionally, the median age of the minivan buyer, currently 51, is increasing more rapidly than in other segments of the industry. Yet we know that in spite of their stigma, minivans are great vehicles. The fundamentals make total sense. There is no more efficient vehicle.

Vince Young

It comes with age, ... more years, more experience and more working with players on my team.

It is abundantly clear to me that your agency is unlawfully targeting Mr. Locker in retaliation for his independent legal analysis of your proposed meal period regulation,

Robert Ingersoll

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions

It is a highly focused agenda on storm recovery issues, as well as seeking the budget she wants.

Lord Byron

It is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive- they In whom our brightest days we would retrace, Our little selves reform'd in finer clay, Just as old age is creeping on apace, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, Th

Javier Solana

I think the position now is what we have said, ...which is to have a decision to call for an extraordinary meeting in Vienna of the (IAEA) agency and then to refer the dossier to the Security Council.

I think the penalty here is much too severe. We might have some gamesmanship going on - an agency could become a bargaining chip.