Age Quotes - Page 160

If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic!

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

I don't really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world.

Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.