All Quotes

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
‐‐ Claude Pepper

'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'
‐‐ Paul Weller

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.
‐‐ Charles Vest

'Agent Mom' is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as 'Agent Mom.'
‐‐ Alaina Huffman

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
‐‐ Imelda Staunton

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
‐‐ Jasper Fforde

Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made - agents act as a good intermediary between authors and publishers whenever disagreements come up.
‐‐ John Romaniello

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
‐‐ Jackie Collins

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.
‐‐ Uwe Boll

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.
‐‐ John Ashcroft

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
‐‐ Bernard Cornwell

Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream... and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.
‐‐ Harry Styles

Ages ago, when I published 'Amelia's Notebook,' I'd sent it to traditional publishers I'd been working with, but nobody knew what to do with it. Tricycle was this small publisher who didn't know any better, and they took a chance.
‐‐ Marissa Moss

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
‐‐ Jack Kingston

Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.
‐‐ Rick Perry

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would suffer catastrophically. The theatrical blustering of the Ethiopian government notwithstanding, donor countries have a make-or-break power over the Ethiopia's prosperity.
‐‐ Eskinder Nega

Aggregate statistics can sometimes mask important information.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.
‐‐ Ron Paul

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
‐‐ Margaret J. Wheatley

Aggression is not a breed thing. It's a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.
‐‐ Cesar Millan

Aggression is simply another name for government.
‐‐ Benjamin Tucker

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
‐‐ Margaret J. Wheatley

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
‐‐ Margaret J. Wheatley

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran.
‐‐ Moshe Katsav

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.
‐‐ Lydia Lunch

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
‐‐ Joan Jett

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.
‐‐ Iris Apfel

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.
‐‐ Courteney Cox

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
‐‐ Erin McKean

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.
‐‐ Lisa Vidal

Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.
‐‐ Michio Kaku

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Aging is not currently regarded as a disease, but researchers tend increasingly to view it as the common origin of conditions like insulin resistance or cardiovascular disease, whose incidence rises with age. In treating cell aging, we could prevent these diseases.
‐‐ María Blasco Marhuenda

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
‐‐ Betty Friedan

Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil

Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
‐‐ Ingmar Bergman

Aging is one of the most visual diseases on the planet and includes things that we all know like wrinkles and grey hair, but also brain atrophy, muscle wasting and organ damage.
‐‐ Liz Parrish

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.
‐‐ Lisa Edelstein

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
‐‐ Ernestine Rose

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
‐‐ Robert Peel