Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lykke Li

Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.

Jane Austen

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

Jan Egeland

Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

Jan Egeland

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Jamie Oliver

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

Jamie Oliver

From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

Janet Street-Porter

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

Janet Yellen

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S.I.V.’s — I didn’t see any of that coming until it happened.

Lionel Hampton

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

Michael Gove

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

There is a significant trend toward consolidating systems management features into fewer tools. Customers want to minimize the number of agents that perform overlapping functions.

Kevin Hall

There is a real historic opportunity to take what has obviously been just a terrible thing and create something good out of it. If the business-as-usual, adult-centered agenda rules the day, it would be a real tragedy for the students in New Orleans. People around the nation who are poised to help bring resources to the table might turn their attention to other places.

There are plenty of people in California government who are running agencies that are larger and more complex than the University of California who are not getting ridiculously astronomical salaries.

There are more people who fit into the class of elderly. The more people in the group, the more cases you'll have. The problem is a lot of bad age-discrimination cases ruin it for the rest of them. You do see a number of people claiming age discrimination with little merit. It sours the courts on age-discrimination cases.

Martin O'Malley

There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime

There are some local agencies that don't have the funding to participate in the system.

Pankaj Mishra

The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

The only way to do this properly is to have the state pass a law, and then have an independent agency or organization of some kind take the data collected by police at traffic stops and analyze it.

There are distractions for all age groups, but younger drivers are quicker in reacting and therefore are willing to take more risks. Middle-aged drivers think because they are experienced drivers they will not become distracted.

There are differences in personalities, in the city agendas and goals, but the IT systems are what stand out as the common thread." ()

I both see families that let children date at a young age and parents who put restrictions on their child, and I truly believe children should be in youth groups and only hanging out with children in groups,

Donald Rumsfeld

I’m not a doctor and I’m not the kind of a person who would be in a position to approve or disapprove. It seems to me, looking at it from this distance, is that the responsible people are the combatant commanders. And the Army is the executive agent for detainees.

Jason Fuchs

I am someone who, from a very young age, was a huge fan of DC Comics.

Gerald Brenan

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Rebel Wilson

I am the type of girl with zero fashion sense, but I am getting into it now. It's becoming important for me. I saw a lot of girls were beginning to notice what I wear, and I feel a kind of responsibility because there aren't any women in Hollywood my size and age.

Carlos Garcia was an agent of change. People may not want to believe it right now, but he really was.

Care night is our premiere fund-raiser for the winter, which will help us raise the funds that we need to support the 19 agencies that benefit from the Crawford County United Way.

Certainly in this day and age, with the changes in society, there is at times fast driving. Sure, they run the stop sign, but where don't they run the stop sign from time to time?

CDPHP recommends women have their first mammogram by age 40 and then every one to two years thereafter. Knowing that the data backs the success of these screenings, women should feel empowered to take control of their health.

Mary Gordon

'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.