Famous Quotes & Sayings

has for most of her adult life lived in public housing and is flying around now on United States Air Force airplanes campaigning for the United States Senate.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

Jenna Jameson

I always look at both sides and totally understand their fears of the unknown, ... Whenever there is any type of adult stigma surrounding the fear, the worst is always assumed.

He had just served as the best man in a recent wedding. He was an adult volunteer who helped out at youth activities, which is a common practice in every church. Like many other people in our church, I was completely caught off guard and shocked by this. It seemed completely out of character for him.

I thought we were going to be approved. We're a legal adult entertainment business. I thought we could have produced some jobs and been a good business for the area.

I think that having been abused when she was a child has had a really damaging affect on her adult relationships.

Kate Winslet

Part of Breast Cancer Care's work is to make sure everyone in the UK is breast aware throughout their adult lives,

Part of the problem is if you've got an adult population where 64 percent of the adults are obese, that's the model that the upcoming generation sees every day. So the potential for it to become the norm, that's part of the self-perpetuating cycle.

People have used the argument-not a scientific argument but a political argument-that we don't need to do human embryonic stem cell research because, after all, mature or adult stem cells will do everything. Doug's paper says that's not exactly correct.

Dakota Fanning

Kurt says it's an adult family movie, that's what he calls it, ... He says that adults will really enjoy it and kids will really enjoy it at the same time and that all ages can see it, and I think all ages will get a different message from it, and I'm really proud of it.

Harold Prince

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

Adam Ferrara

I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

Tim Kennedy

My whole adult life, my dream was to live on a golf course. Now I'm not going to have a golf course ... the city is going to take it away from me.

My work at those adult retreats has given me some experience to sense when things are not right,

My plan to keep the preschool programs here very strong and to build on other programs for the youth and adult population, ... And to meet the needs in the community.

Many elderly people choose cohabitation to avoid opposition from their adult children. A remarriage between two old people causes many sensitive issues.

Local adult education programs seldom advertise or contact local media regarding the work that is being done due to the fact that wait-lists are long for some classes/services.

Bertrand Russell

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

The adult witness is believed to be a staff member, not a teacher.

The adult patients are able to express their fears, their emotions, their concerns, their wishes and their dreams in another manner.

The adult market might have more longevity, as they go after watches and cellular phones, lots of different things, when the video comes out that will certainly reinvent that wheel all over again too.

Steve Erickson

The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.

That would be your standard adult bald eagle...just kind of hanging out as they do.

That was something . . . I can't explain that, ... I'm more of an adult now. I don't do all the things I used to. I just sit back and try to talk to younger guys and give them advice.

Jayne Anne Phillips

That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.

Most of our adult imprints went after the market on a title-by-title basis. But this group came in and proposed a guerrilla movement to find content and match it to the audience.

Most libraries have a young adult section, but it is jammed in the back of the children's section.

MGM wanted to elevate the Pink Panther brand to a more adult audience for the 40th anniversary in 2004. After looking at the Thomas Pink brand and philosophy, it was evident that the two brands were a perfect fit, as each could be equated to cool, sophisticated and stylish. With the rates of sales being so outstanding for our original co-branded product line, we went back to Thomas Pink for a second partnership that will no doubt be even more successful, especially with the release of the new Pink Panther movie generating extra interest in the brand this season.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they have learned that they can find books there which they will truly love: a teenage protagonist is close enough to adult so readers of whichever age can sympathise and empathise with them.

Carl Hiaasen

I thought nobody in his right mind was going to publish a book for kids by me -- not if they've read my adult fiction,

Makosi is an adult who, like any other, should be allowed to make her own decisions as she did when she entered the contest. All the things that she did in the show were part of the game and as a family we have nothing to do with that nor does anyone else.

Jill Paton Walsh

I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call 'literary' without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered.

Michael McKean

I was there to be kind of the adult - to be David Spade's dad. Which was okay, and I got to do a few things. I was on 26 shows and I managed to get 20 sketches on - either as sole writer or co-writer. So I can't say that I was completely miserable.