Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gibson

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.

William Temple

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Nicola Griffith

Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

Mitt Romney

We are not going to know ages and needs until they actually land,

Walter Dean Myers

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

Walter Kirn

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

Warren Spector

Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too.

Robert Hofstadter

Not only has this subject been long associated with the ideas of thinking men over the ages but its practical importance is attested to by the huge resources of men and material thrown into this type of work.

Dave Gahan

You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.

Miranda Lambert

I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.

Frankie Valli

'Jersey Boys' has been the most amazing experience ever and has exposed an entire new audience to the music. It's great to see people of all ages coming to the show.

Thomas Hardy

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

John Lasseter

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

Bill Nye

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.

Flea

The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

Marcus Samuelsson

Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy.

We have dancers of all ages on stage. I think it's good for the younger dancers to see that.

Billy Collins

Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.

Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention.

A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.

Bill Nelson

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

Bat for Lashes

I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.

Antony Beevor

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.

Bill Clinton

This should be a happy day for Americans of all ages today because a very good thing has been done for the future.

This will be the true sacerdotal human being that will look in the distance of the space of the universe as the ages of billions and billions of years, long before the age when man was enslaved collapse on him by slowly making disappear the lights in which the life of a certain star, that could be the star of his Destiny is still wavering. Through the vanity of his own Universe, man will find his true meaning that of being equal to the Universe, to not be the one that is kneeled and enslaved to its laws. Through vanity, man will feel stronger because he will realize that he is not alone in this vanity. That he does not owe any divinity and that he is as strong as any divinity in this vanity. Then vanity will become church and shield, beauty and fulfilment.

Bob DuPuy

There are a number of segments of the marketplace that I'd like to see us continue to reach out to and Latins is one of those. Kids from the ages of 12 until the time they get out of college are an area we need to focus on. They're great through Little League, and then through high school we tend to lose some of them.

Keeley Hawes

When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

There are 1 billion women, worldwide, between the ages of 20 and 40. This project enables a global dialogue among this dynamic group of women poised to pick up the reins of world leadership, And global domination!

From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.

John Grierson

For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.

Henry Ward Beecher

Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages