Getting Quotes

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

Getting fired is hard.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

I love getting out on the streets and helping people.

Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.