Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walker Percy

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

Wallace Stegner

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

Samuel Richardson

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

Samuel Larsen

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

Vincent Bugliosi

Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . . , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I was recently watching Rihanna on the Billboard awards, and I was like, My God, she's incredible! And then I looked up her age [28]. She's always been talented. She's always been a star. But when you see her, she's becoming herself. It's age that happens. That's what I respond to.

Uri Geller

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Age and illness made one a dualist

Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Tyler Posey

Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

William Ames

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

William Allen White

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

Wilfrid Sheed

The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.

Wilfred Owen

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Washington Irving

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

Washington Irving

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Walter Lippmann

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Voltaire

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

Voltaire

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

William Ralph Inge

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

William Ralph Inge

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

William Ralph Inge

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

William Butler Yeats

I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

Wilkie Collins

I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.

Walter Isaacson

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive

Yo-Yo Ma

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

Willie Aames

I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.

William S. Burroughs

Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.

[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

Virginia Woolf

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

Vinnie Jones

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

Woodrow Wilson

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.