Age Quotes (10392)

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race... view

By: Emil Zatopek

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Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time... view

By: Pieter Zeeman

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The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron... view

By: Pieter Zeeman

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While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love... view

By: Roger Zelazny

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People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular... view

By: Niklas Zennstrom

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What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines... view

By: Niklas Zennstrom

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After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity... view

By: Catherine Zeta-Jones

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For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end... view

By: Catherine Zeta-Jones

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I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified... view

By: Catherine Zeta-Jones

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In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized... view

By: Clara Zetkin

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The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible... view

By: Clara Zetkin

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When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men... view

By: Clara Zetkin

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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage... view

By: Warren Zevon

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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too... view

By: Warren Zevon

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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle... view

By: Kong Fu Zi

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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled... view

By: Xun Zi

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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him... view

By: Xun Zi

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I have no message... view

By: Zinedine Zidane

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How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage... view

By: Florenz Ziegfeld

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The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage... view

By: Ron Ziegler

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side... view

By: Zig Ziglar

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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business... view

By: Zig Ziglar

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The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life... view

By: Philip Zimbardo

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It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that... view

By: Barry Zito

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When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better... view

By: Zhang Ziyi

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Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember... view

By: Rob Zombie

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And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage... view

By: John Zorn

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I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages... view

By: John Zorn

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When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!.. view

By: Daphne Zuniga

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Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German... view

By: Stefan Zweig

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It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come... view

By: Edward Zwick

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And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong... view

By: Terry Zwigoff

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