Age Quotes - Page 131

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than the woman. Whether deep thought, reason, or imagination or merely the use of the senses and hands.....We may also infer.....The average mental power in man must be above that of woman.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.