Bennett Cerf Quotes

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Team
  • Winning

• I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Said

• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Truth
  • You
  • Woman

• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Writing
  • Person
  • Possible

• I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • Find

• The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

  

  Larry David
  • Always
  • Find
  • Nuts

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • Health

• I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Movies
  • Actor
  • Image

• I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Truth
  • Religions

• My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • World
  • Age
  • Career

• It is commonly said that covetousness is one of the reigning sins of old age. How strange that it should be so! Especially considering what they have seen, and known, and it may be, felt of the emptiness and uncertainty of riches. They have witnessed how often they make themselves wings. What! And not yet convinced! What! Almost at the end of thy journey, and yet loading thyself with thick clay! Think of the time of day. It is almost night; even sun-set. And art thou unmindful of the grave? The body is bending downwards, let the heart be upwards.

  

  Philip Henry
  • Age
  • Sins
  • Uncertainty

• I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Care
  • Beauty
  • Looks

• I don't live in D.C. I keep an air mattress in my office.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Live
  • Air

• Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

  

  Bennett Cerf
  • Age