For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
~By Brian Setzer ~
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
~By William Wordsworth ~
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
~By Bob Riley ~
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
~By Charles Edwards ~
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
~By Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~
I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.
~By Gisele Bundchen ~
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
~By Alan Perlis ~
As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.
~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
~By Roland Barthes ~
I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
~By Pericles ~
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
~By Paul Getty ~
I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
~By Alain Prost ~
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
~By Washington Irving ~
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
~By Joseph Chamberlain ~
I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
~By T-Bone Burnett ~
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.
~By King Edward VIII ~
At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
~By Michael Bergdahl ~
When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'
~By Sharon Stone ~
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
~By Ann Coulter ~
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
~By St. Jerome ~
When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
~By Marcel Carne ~
I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
~By Ted Dexter ~
Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
~By LeVar Burton ~
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
~By William Styron ~
So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.
~By Chris Bell ~
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
~By William Blake ~
The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
~By Berke Breathed ~
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
~By Matthew Modine ~
My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.
~By Rod Parsley ~
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
~By Jane Rule ~
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.
~By Noel Coward ~
This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!
~By Mariah Carey ~
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
~By Ed Miliband ~
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
~By Bette Davis ~
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
~By Meg Ryan ~
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
~By Jim Gibbons ~
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
~By Bram stoker ~
When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.
~By Julie Bishop ~
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
~By Fay Godwin ~
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
~By Gene Fowler ~
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
~By Jon Corzine ~
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.
~By Lois Capps ~
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
~By Octavio Paz ~
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
~By Helen Rowland ~
While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
Marriage is the tomb of love.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
~By Gary Wright ~
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
~By Sharon Stone ~
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
~By Ernest Istook ~
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
~By Julia Cameron ~
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.
~By Charlie Byrd ~
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
~By Betty Friedan ~
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
~By E. B. White ~
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.
~By Ron Lewis ~
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~By Henry James ~
I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.
~By Tre Cool ~
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
~By John Ford ~
I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
~By Robert Half ~
Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~
You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
~By Elizabeth Banks ~
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
~By Millicent Carey McIntosh ~
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
~By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
~By Lillian Gordy Carter ~
There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.
~By Paul Kagame ~
'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
~By Dick Morris ~
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.
~By Robert Moog ~
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
~By Martin C. Smith ~
I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.
~By William Kempe ~
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