I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.
~ Bobby Knight
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
~ Queen Elizabeth Ii
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
~ Jane Elliot
I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
~ Christina Milian
There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.
~ Claire Danes
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
~ Frank Rich
I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
~ Ryan White
In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.
~ Dennis Quaid
I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
~ Rick Springfield
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.
~ Darius Rucker
In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.
~ Dorothy Hamill
I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.
~ Geoff Johns
Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.
~ Tony Visconti
The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.
~ Corin Tucker
I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
~ Diane Cilento
Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
~ Sam Trammell
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
~ Linda Hunt
I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.
~ Cory Wells
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
~ David Bowie
I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
~ Lana Del Rey
For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.
~ Nobuo Uematsu
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
~ Philip Johnson
After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
~ Franco Harris
If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.
~ William Devane
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
~ Billy Graham
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.
~ Alan Moore
Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.
~ Seth Shostak
Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.
~ John O. Brennan
I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say.
~ Evan Mcmullin
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
~ Charles Bass
My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.
~ David Walton
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
~ Rem Koolhaas
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
~ Michael Graves
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?
~ David Chipperfield