Famous Quotes & Sayings

The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.

Surprisingly, many of our clients who are in their 50s are already planning ahead and incorporating design elements to help in the aging process.

We need more federal help for local communities to control runoff and update their aging sewage systems.

My own feeling is, these are aging franchises,

Lithium-ion's capacity to hold a charge declines over time -- they start aging the minute they're off the production line.

George Soros

I think I lost my touch some time ago. I'm like an aging boxer that should not go into the ring,

Jose Gonzalez

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

It is burdened with old and aging infrastructure, frayed at the edges, costly, some times unreliable, ... ...any misstep in human spaceflight could spell a very long hiatus in human driven exploration spaceflight in the U.S. So this underscores the need to realize that NASA cannot succeed alone in pursuing the exploration vision.

Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress' lips, and murders. Actors come from all over the world to find their sliver of fame on the street of L.A. Many stars rise, but many more fall.

Plum Island is an aging laboratory and the department is looking at all the options for establishing the new laboratory. That option includes expanding the current lab at Plum Island.

One of the biggest things about the boomers is that they're the first group in history that has grown up with many positive models for aging in their own family, ... They're the first group that could really see the full potential of aging.

I am especially thrilled to be working closely with an incredibly creative and passionate group of scientists, artists, designers and engineers who constitute the faculty and students of the lab. I see this exceptional community working together over the next decade to overcome some of the world's most pressing societal problems -- from providing improved health care to an aging population, to devising inexpensive digital tools for developing economies, to changing the way children learn.

This probably has to do with the aging of the population and more people confronting these situations. The poll found that people who have participated in decisions about end-of-life or had loved ones with illnesses in the last five years are much more likely to have thought about end-of-life treatments or to have living wills.

Now our aging landscape has a new look and the school is humming with excitement.

Near term, risks associated with restructuring actions, an aging product portfolio in a hyper competitive environment, deteriorating market share, an over reliance on light trucks and fleet sales, and higher borrowing costs inhibit a return to peak profitability.

Andrew Niccol

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

Cynthia Kenyon

Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

Ambrose Bierce

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

Deepak Chopra

Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.

Richard Lamm

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.

Elizabeth Blackburn

This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today.

Gloria Steinem

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

Sharon Stone

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

We'd need proof of financial status, but making sure they have transportation is such a priority for the Council on Aging board of directors that this isn't going to be a problem.

This study has demolished the misconception about old age, ... The possibility of experiencing positive, vital aging lasting into our tenth decade of life is one of the new realities of the 21 st century.

We have an aging workforce, so these touches are nice.

We have wasted an insane amount of money. Health care is being starved to keep the postal system, the roads and bridges around. In a country with a shrinking, aging population, this system is going to lower living standards.

We are in the midst of a rapidly aging population.

We know people on calorie restriction will lose weight. But this study isn't a weight-loss study. We're hoping to learn more about whether calorie restriction can alter the aging process.

We'll have a number of people who are familiar with aging cattle by their dentition look at this animal and see if they concur with the original veterinarian.

Jim Murphy

We've met with the University of Arizona and Raytheon and they're very supportive of what we're doing. They recognize that the population is aging and, if you look at the projections, there simply won't be enough workers for the jobs we'll have. So, it makes sense to turn to the age-50-plus workforce.

The answer to the challenges presented by personnel changes and aging deals is to make sure that long-term co-promotion leadership is addressed at the outset of deals. Both companies will want to ensure that partners are not only committed to the deal at its launch, but five or seven years down the road as well.