Age Quotes - Page 116

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.