Getting Quotes

I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I feel excited about getting older as an actress, too. I think there are some amazing opportunities around the corner and I don't need to hold on to myself or who I was when I was 25.

I've never had to deal with ageism - so far - in my career; I have been able to navigate my career and getting older and the roles and opportunities that have come to me.

I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.

Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.

Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

Making a movie is like getting married. You're like, "Am I going to marry this project? Am I ready for that kind of commitment?"

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.

All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

Getting married in four days was the biggest... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.

I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.

People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.

You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

I'm not a big one on - I don't know what to call it - getting all glamorous. I don't really worry about my looks, and I don't worry about getting old. Exterior beauty doesn't mean a lot to me.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher.

I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment we can start now start slowly changing the world!

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?

As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.

This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.