Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?
I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?
It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations.
My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.
The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.
Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore.
I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
In life, you have to go through something to get to something. From that, the inspiration comes having something of substance to talk about; otherwise you're just considered to be fluff.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.
I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.
Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.
I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered.
Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.
Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.
I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.
There's a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want.
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.
