Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Berg

I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit' and 'Breath and Bone,' because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain - which has been overdone.

I don't think now is the appropriate time to go through the analysis of individuals, support staff, training, etcetera, ... But all those things are on the agenda and we have certainly been talking about them.

Helen Oyeyemi

I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was reading at what age. It's more of an intellectual thing of wanting to be free to write and think without being too bound by categorisation. I don't think I'm made for these times; I feel more like an old-fashioned writer.

Gregory Bateson

From the point of view of any agent who imposes a quantitative change, any change of pattern which may occur will be unpredictable or divergent.

Moe Berg

For us, we let the circumstances dictate what will happen with us. We're more inclined to let whatever demand there is for something manifest itself before we push our own agenda on the world. We didn't come up with the idea of recording new songs. It was (Jake) who suggested it and we went along with it, so I guess it would depend on what kind of influence we got from outside whether we would actually go and do more songs or not.

For us, it's not about purchasing behavior. We are more interested in introducing students at that age . . . getting them used to Rhapsody.

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

Steven Bauer

Fortunately, I'm very healthy, and my body is still intact. It hasn't aged very much, I feel like a very young 56. I exercise regularly, and when I do, I always learn new things about my body.

Given the startling data that 7 1/2-percent of school-age children will at some point be diagnosed with ADHD you have to look at why the numbers are as high as they are, ... One needs to be extra careful about the criteria used in the new study. A child with ADHD has to be impaired in more than one setting and they didn't have data to show that.

Robert Ingersoll

Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men

Globular clusters are old and give us a limit on the age of the universe. The universe couldn't be younger than the oldest star cluster.

If it doesn't win, then at least there's clarity. I would prefer that ending to an ending where I have to sit at this table and vote to dissolve this agency without any input.

Alex Wurman

I got connected to this film by luck, ... I was telling my agent that I was dying to do something with a big melody.

Jessica Lowndes

I got an agent when I was 16 up in Vancouver, Canada.

Patrick Dempsey

I got a lot out of it; it made me a much better man. But with the age people wind up going through two different cycles in their lives.

Andrew Lawrence

I get frustrated by the fact that comics go on stage with some kind of agenda beyond comedy - I'm not sure it should be about that.

I got a B.A. from Hunter College, worked as a school teacher, a lobster salesman, and a literary agent before being published.

I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.

Drew Barrymore

I get to be a kid now, because I wasn't a kid when I was supposed to be one. But in some ways, I'm like an old woman-lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.

If you are foolish enough to establish a link to an agent of the Chinese government then the only person hurt by that would be you.

He's done everything. He brings age, wisdom, confidence. He played lights out last week.

There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead.

When we finished the album, our producer, Brendan O'Brien, told me that the album is going to age gracefully,

underscores the need for a proactive U.S. competitiveness agenda that promotes research and development and encourages a work force skilled in math, science and technology, among other things.

Mary Quant

I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.

Mary-Kate Olsen

I think it's really important to be able to talk when something's wrong. I learned at a really young age that if you don't talk about it, it can drive you insane.

Hu Jintao

We meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age

John Bolton

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

We made the offer to the various agencies here, the Red Cross, FEMA. Some of them weren't able to attend, like the power company workers, but we'll do the same for the Tulsa game.

We made that known early in the free agent (signing) period. We fought all week to get this done and we're totally excited.

Keith Stanfield

I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.

Kristan Higgins

After about the age of 13, I was a romance addict. Still am, though I read just about every other genre as well. The only thing I really shy away from is political thrillers.