I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.
~By Lynn Westmoreland ~
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
~By Robert Quillen ~
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
~By Peter Latham ~
I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use.
~By James Lind ~
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!
~By Charles Anthon ~
Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?
~By Shirley Booth ~
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
~By Nadia Comaneci ~
Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
~By Roberta Flack ~
This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.
~By Robert Fortune ~
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.
~By Stephen Collins ~
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
~By Judith Viorst ~
The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican.
~By Robert Teeter ~
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
~By Albert Ellis ~
When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.
~By River Phoenix ~
I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
~By Ethel Merman ~
No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.
~By Cheryl Tiegs ~
I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.
~By Romeo LeBlanc ~
As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
~By Ike Skelton ~
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
~By John Doolittle ~
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
~By Bill Bryson ~
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
~By Benicio Del Toro ~
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
~By Toni Morrison ~
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
~By LeBron James ~
Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.
~By Jay Roach ~
If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house.
~By Gilbert Gottfried ~
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
~By Willa Cather ~
Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.
~By Shelagh Delaney ~
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
~By Stanley Kunitz ~
As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.
~By Joss Whedon ~
During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
~By Ike Skelton ~
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
~By Tim Cahill ~
Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.
~By Ernst Toller ~
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'
~By Joan Rivers ~
I think we can win it if my brain holds out.
~By John McGraw ~
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.
~By Ernie Banks ~
You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds.
~By Pia Toscano ~
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
~By Frances Wright ~
All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.
~By Alexander Henry ~
Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.
~By Sheila Jackson Lee ~
Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.
~By Slavoj Zizek ~
Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
~By James Nasmyth ~
Where children are, there is the golden age.
~By Novalis ~
This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market.
~By Jacques Verges ~
I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
~By Max Frisch ~
To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.
~By Sanaa Lathan ~
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
~By Martha Graham ~
Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
~By Claiborne Pell ~
If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.
~By David Hunt ~
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
~By Ben Stiller ~
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
~By Amy Irving ~
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
A true woman always loves a real soldier.
~By Belle Boyd ~
It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
~By Elizabeth Moon ~
It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
~By Mitch Hedberg ~
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
~By Marguerite Young ~
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
~By Alex North ~
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
~By Tommy Cooper ~
It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
~By Jan Egeland ~
No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney.
~By David Letterman ~
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
~By Rob Lowe ~
In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.
~By Mark Spitz ~
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.
~By David Kay ~
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.
~By Eric Carr ~
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.
~By Bill Kristol ~
It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.
~By Adrian Edmondson ~
We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.
~By John Hoeven ~
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
~By Casey Stengel ~
I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
~By Sam Neill ~
We used to go and play shows in the south in front of two people and now every show we did was just great. The warm-ups, most of those weren't even advertised and most of them were sold out. I don't know what's going on, it's just so much different than it used to be.
~By Jon Crosby ~
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
~By Kelly Jones ~
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
~By Euripides ~
It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.
~By Mary Kay Blakely ~
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
~By James L. Buckley ~
I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.
~By Mats Sundin ~
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