Sentence examples for some adage from inspiring English sources

"People generally don't get to direct, like, Chekhov or Tennessee Williams until they're forty-five there was some adage I heard that you have to have gray hair to direct," he told me.

Some adages have earned their distinction like the one that says it's not what you know but who you know that counts.

Some adages about sleep and your emotional health -- think "don't go to bed angry" -- don't necessarily ring true, experts say.

She would always find some supportive ancient adage, or simply kick me up the backside with some version of the "You don't know how lucky you are" speech.

Then there is Meadowcreek, to whom the adage "win some, lose some" holds little meaning.

AdAge has some details on the campaign here, but I obtained some raw figures from AdMob.

"Cancer is not a gift," Cathy says, rejecting the adage of some support-group members who chase her around trying to convert her, but Linney is.

After Waterworld and Battleship, some would say the adage about never working with children or animals could be extended to include films set on water, yet Ang's gone for all three.

There's some truth to the adage "it's not what you know, it's who you know".

And AdAge has some details about deals with even more partners, including HBO, Warner Brothers, and the History Channel.

Maybe it's a coincidence, an example of the randomness of small sample sizes in baseball, or maybe there's some truth to the adage that when a prominent player is lost to injury, others must "step up" to fill the void.