Getting Quotes

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision.

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.

When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.