Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Stone

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

Richard Madden

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

Dylan Penn

Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.

Kids love the movie. Our audience is predominantly young -- 12 and younger -- so most of the eyeballs got in at children's price. But we expect that age group to grow over the coming weeks as word of mouth spreads. The film is budgeted considerably under $30 million, so it's going to be very profitable. Frankie Muniz's last film ('Big Fat Liar') opened to $11 million and did $47 million (so) this could do $60 million.

James Nesbitt

Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.

William Shakespeare

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.

I would say the check-in process over the next five years is just going to change dramatically, and it will be an unusual event to talk to an agent before getting on the plane.

I would still like to farm, if I could, at this age. It's great. I'm going to stay.

I wrote 'Young Guns' on spec because I really believed that the young age of these guys historically, the whole legend of Billy dying at 21, would attract a young staple of stars, and that would be the game-changer.

Romesh Gunesekera

I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.

Nicholas Sparks

I wrote the first five pages last because I knew those would take a lot of time and had to be perfect to get the attention of an agent right away.

Cary Fukunaga

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital.

Katrina pretty much stops his legislative agenda cold.

Vince Young

Just talking to my agent and manager and guys that we just know, you never know what's going to happen. You've got to be prepared and ready to meet these great coaches and great teams and players, and interact with those guys just in case you do get picked by them.

Jon stepped up. He made a statement about who he is. He could have gone the free agent route next year and potentially commanded more years and more money. That was less of a concern than his wanting to be here.

Condoleezza Rice

John Bolton is personally committed to the future success of the United Nations, and he will be a strong voice for reform at a time when the United Nations has begun to reform itself to help meet the challenging agenda before the international community.

Joe certainly won't be forgotten. He was valuable to this agency and the law enforcement community as a whole.

John Hancock owned one of the wharves. It needed repair. In this letter he instructs his agent in Plymouth to just sell it.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Chord Overstreet

I talked to my agent and said that, basically, I'm the Taylor Lautner of TV. We both have our shirts off a lot. And we have the same agent, so we goof around about it. I'm waiting to open a script and see my shirt on.

Buddy Rogers

I think it's a good training exercise. We benefit from that, all the agencies will. It just shows that we can respond when we're needed.

I think it may seem confusing if you're not familiar with the process a government agency has to go through to utilize grant funding.

Slade Gorton

I think it is impossible to overestimate the difficulty in moving a huge federal government with dozens and dozens of agencies from a culture in which information is treasured and kept and hidden, to one of appropriate information sharing.

Michael Medved

I think it combines an outrageously obvious agenda with outstanding artistry.

Martha Hunt

It all started when I went to this model search in Charlotte when I was 18. That's when I met all these agents and realized I could do it, and I won! I met a photographer at the competition who persuaded me to sign with a different agency than the one that was offered to me. So, I started with a small agency and eventually moved up to IMG.

It all started here at M. D. Anderson with the concept, vector development, preclinical trials and the first phase of testing. This agent has clinical benefit, and because of its novelty and lack of interest by major pharmaceutical companies, the only way to make it available to patients was to start a biotech company. But it has been a long road.

It became natural for him. It wasn't long before he picked it up and he had the stroke down. We flipped him around to right-handed at age 13 and he did OK. But he was definitely better left-handed.

John Shimkus

I taught world history. I understand there was an Ice Age... seasons come and seasons go. I do not believe the world's going to end because of the 2 percent man-made greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. And even if it were, we're not going to stop it.

It appears that age-related cognitive changes are the result of combined influences on the gray matter and the white matter.

It appears Roy Moore is campaigning on an agenda that echoes the same positions Gov. Riley has already taken. Most of the issues Roy Moore outlined (Monday) were detailed in Gov. Riley's Plan for Change back in 2002, and Gov. Riley has worked ever since then to implement them.

It angers me. His agents told him he's going the first day of the draft. That's what they told him. They are pieces of garbage.

It always surprises me, and pleases me, that they still come because they enjoy it. At this age, it takes a physical effort.