Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Frank

Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.

Woody Allen

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

William Shenstone

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

William J. Clinton

You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.

William Gibson

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

Will Estes

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

Sara Blakely

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

Saint Basil

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

Vance Packard

At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.

Robin Williams

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

Robin Williams

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

Robin Cook

Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.

Robert Wilson Lynd

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

Robert Rodriguez

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

Richard Perle

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

Richard Dawkins

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

Rex Harrison

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

Renny Harlin

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

Rebecca West

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

Russell Banks

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

Thomas S. Monson

Do we have a guide to help us choose the right and avoid dangerous detours? I have tried to pattern my life after the Master. Whenever I have a difficult decision to make, I have looked at that picture and asked myself, "What would He do?" Then I try to do it. We can never go wrong when we choose to follow the Savior.

Thomas Sowell

When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.

Robert Musil

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.

Richard Linklater

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Richard Schickel

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.

Richard Rorty

To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.

Richard Foreman

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

Roald Dahl

Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.

Richard Powers

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

Richard Le Gallienne

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

Tucker Carlson

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.