I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
~By Sting ~
Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
~By Edward Dowden ~
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.
~By Susan Hampshire ~
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
~By Peter Drucker ~
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
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 ~
And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.
~By Jeffrey Tambor ~
I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
~By Mary Roberts Rinehart ~
When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.
~By Dave Lombardo ~
Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
~By Jan Egeland ~
The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.
~By Pola Negri ~
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
~By Albert Speer ~
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.
~By Roger Wicker ~
Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
~By Margaret Whiting ~
I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
~By James Green Somerville ~
Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.
~By Charlene Tilton ~
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
~By Charles W. Chesnutt ~
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
~By Albert Camus ~
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
~By Jerry Stiller ~
I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.
~By Strom Thurmond ~
Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
~By Uri Geller ~
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
~By Robert Morgan ~
This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.
~By Richard M. Helms ~
We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
~By Russell Hoban ~
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
~By Al Sharpton ~
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
~By Ron Silver ~
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
~By Gates McFadden ~
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
~By Maya Angelou ~
I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.
~By Kiri Te Kanawa ~
The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
~By Earl Browder ~
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
~By Marguerite Young ~
My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.
~By Richard Virenque ~
All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
~By Meyer Lansky ~
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
~By John Chrysostom ~
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.
~By Pieter Zeeman ~
The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.
~By Will Wright ~
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
~By Anne Tyler ~
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
~By Ovid ~
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
~By William Hazlitt ~
One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.
~By Chester Brown ~
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.
~By Kristen Bell ~
At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
~By Harry Seidler ~
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
~By Eliza Farnham ~
Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
~By David Lodge ~
I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
~By Major Taylor ~
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
~By June Jordan ~
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
~By David Ricardo ~
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
~By L. Frank Baum ~
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
~By Saffron Burrows ~
When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
~By Charles Stanley ~
I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic.
~By C. Kilmer Myers ~
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
~By Washington Irving ~
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
~By Rod Parsley ~
I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.
~By John Pistole ~
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
~By Albert Einstein ~
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
~By Logan P. Smith ~
I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.
~By Gerald Griffin ~
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
~By Nicolas Chamfort ~
China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
~By Ziyi Zhang ~
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
~By Nelly Furtado ~
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
~By Walter Scott ~
I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.
~By Elijah Wood ~
It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
~By John Lithgow ~
I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.
~By Charlie Hunnam ~
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I would never discourage anyone from doing what it is in life that they want to do. But I would encourage them to find out the pros and cons of anything they become involved in.
~By Rita Mero ~
The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching.
~By Moo-hyum Roh ~
I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
~By Gretchen Mol ~
Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.
~By Julie Walters ~
The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
~By Carly Simon ~
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
~By Mark Twain ~
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
|