Age Quotes - Page 161

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is what they get. Their only problem is to not lose the budget. I think its a shame because advertising is so boring and it can be so interesting. They should ask more artists to make interesting campaigns.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

The poor is the central focus of my economic agenda. The poor should be strengthened in such a way that they get the willingness to defeat poverty. By helping the poor make ends meet while they remain in poverty is also one of the ways. I am not saying right or wrong but it's one of the ways.

As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self realization we are on the right track. For India can grow, prosper, flourish only if they grow, prosper, flourish. We cannot grow by any esoteric strategies. Our purchasing power, our economic strength, our marketplace all depends on the prosperity of our people.

...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my potential. I had to be better than the average person to succeed.