Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to… — Jay Weatherill Copy Share Image
My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to… — Angie Dickinson Copy Share Image
He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Aren’t you a little old for your mom to be picking out your clothes for you? Really? Shopping at the Children’s Place… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Dad's fear, especially when I was 18, was that, in the music industry in the U.K., there wasn't really anybody I would… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
We're now seeing levels of inequality raise their heads that we haven't seen since the age of the robber barons. If somebody… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
I don't know if any of us imagined we would ever be up here getting ready to skate in the Olympics. But… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Are men intimated by sexually confident women, you ask? I think men are intimated by any woman who says they are sexually… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age,… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my… — Mario Balotelli Copy Share Image
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has… — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Technology is a nerdy field. Thats why I called myself a geek. It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a… — Weili Dai Copy Share Image
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
I think I was fortunate that even in the children's home I had a boyfriend. How important it was, as an orphan… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
