Age Quotes - Page 154

As was his language so was his life.

Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you.

Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Comedy is a camouflage for depression.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

It is never too late to start growing.

Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash through Hera's rage.

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

Workers are like lemons: When the rich have sucked out all the juice, they throw them in the garbage.

Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.

Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be frustrated, because soon the fun is gone, the newness is gone, and boredom sets in. Marriage is for deep friendship, deep intimacy. Love is implied in it, but it is not alone. So marriage is spiritual. It is spiritual. There are many things which you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond, someone so intimate that you can open yourself totally to him or her.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.