Famous Quotes & Sayings

The median age of vacation home buyers is about 52, so this is the first wave of Baby Boomers, and about one in five is planning on using the second home they've purchased as a primary residence someday. They're thinking about lifestyle issues and their future retirement.

The mechanics' union is quite weakened by its isolation. If they had the support of the other unions, especially the machinists, which represents the largest number of employees at Northwest - all the baggage handlers and gate agents - they really could have shut the airline down.

The mechanics' union is quite weakened by its isolation, ... If they had the support of the other unions, especially the machinists, which represents the largest number of employees at Northwest - all the baggage handlers and gate agents - they really could have shut the airline down.

The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.

The market is really turning around in London, and agents are feeling very positive with our charts pointing northwards when it comes to top-end properties.

Jonah Lehrer

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

Kate Upton

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

Julie Burchill

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Lee Iacocca

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

Laurie Garrett

In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.

Therese of Lisieux

Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.

Terry Tempest Williams

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Terence McKenna

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

Simone de Beauvoir

Old age is life's parody.

Simon Davies

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Rene Cassin

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

Rem Koolhaas

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Reese Witherspoon

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

Tite Kubo

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling. (Isshin Kurosaki)

Timothy Murphy

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

Ruth Wilson

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissents speak to a future age.

Ron Moody

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

Roger Clemens

That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.

Russ Carnahan

The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.

Russ Feingold

He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.

Rush Limbaugh

I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.

Rush Limbaugh

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Thomas Mann

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

Thomas Malthus

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

Randy Bachman

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

Thomas Jefferson

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.