Age Quotes - Page 176

From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of... It's a condition that is curable if it's caught early. If not, if it's allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really, really mess up your life.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.

Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage.

Leaders when not leading are outcasts.

Age for me is just a number.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today's choices

Be careful in your relations with the government; for they draw no man close to themselves except for their own interests. They appear as friends when it is to their advantage, but they do not stand by a man in his time of stress.