In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and… — Carol Mann Copy Share Image
I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of… — Ernest Howard Crosby Copy Share Image
I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about… — Trilok Gurtu Copy Share Image
In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000.… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution -… — Bono Copy Share Image
It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come off like, 'I have… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
We need to evolve a uniform law which does not leave room for any confusion and states that the minimum marriageable age… — Girija Vyas Copy Share Image
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
He chopped up peppers, mixed them with vinegar and Avery Island salt, put the mixture in wooden barrels to age and funneled… — James Conaway Copy Share Image
President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
I was really excited because I had never ever in my life done anything like this [Romeo + Juliette], and at such… — Quindon Tarver Copy Share Image
The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, 'Ah, she looks cool, she… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If… — Jonathan Bowden Copy Share Image
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read,… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception.… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
But while the state pension is a critical foundation for people's financial security as they age, it must be supplemented with other… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
I probably realized when I was maybe 13 years of age that I could make a living out of playing professional sport… — Israel Folau Copy Share Image
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image