All Quotes

A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

A young girl reached out to me to be her mentor one day, which I didn't really know anything about. What I did remember was what it was to be alone as an African-American dancer in the ballet world and wanting to connect with someone who looks like me.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.
‐‐ Mo Rocca

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
‐‐ Thomas Wolfe

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
‐‐ Elizabeth Missing Sewell

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
‐‐ Zebulon Pike

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
‐‐ David Lloyd George

A young man who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
‐‐ Steven Brust

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
‐‐ Marguerite Yourcenar

A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone will hear them. But it's good a lot of young people persevere. Because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
‐‐ Maria Mitchell

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.
‐‐ Ronald Isley

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
‐‐ Henri Matisse

A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.
‐‐ Claire Cameron

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.
‐‐ Robert Winston

A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
‐‐ Confucius

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.
‐‐ Mary Wilson Little

A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.
‐‐ Gene Wolfe

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
‐‐ Frances Burney

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
‐‐ Daniel Boone

A zebra does not change its spots.
‐‐ Al Gore

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.
‐‐ Jim C. Hines

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
‐‐ Danai Gurira

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
‐‐ George A. Romero

A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term.
‐‐ John Surtees

Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.
‐‐ Darell Hammond

Aaliyah revolutionized what it was to be a young black woman in America. She made it OK to be a nerd and to be a tomboy. She made it OK to wear leather and chains. She was the first black girl with an ombre. She was so far ahead of everything and everyone. It was just who she was. She was an innovator, but she didn't even realize it.
‐‐ Alexandra Shipp

Aaliyah was one of my favourite artists.
‐‐ Kyla Reid

Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
‐‐ Lynn Johnston

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.
‐‐ Elliott Carter

Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.
‐‐ Harry Hamlin

Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting.
‐‐ Stephen Collins

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Aaron Sorkin has been incredibly good to me; I don't know that I would have an acting career without him. Thanks to him, people think I'm smart and nice, but I'm neither.
‐‐ Joshua Malina

Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. My prayers are with his family.
‐‐ Alyssa Milano

Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.
‐‐ Linda Evans

AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.
‐‐ Jane Pauley

Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy