Age Quotes - Page 179

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

The most important lesson I've learned is to not limit myself. Kids at my age often get intimidated by the idea of adulthood and feel like they have to know exactly who they are and what they want to do with their lives. I've realized that it's okay to take my time figuring it out and exploring different aspects of myself instead of fixating on one idea of who I am.

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored. The disease of our age is this boredom and a good photographer must successfully combat it. The only way to do this is by invention - by surprise.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.

Your garbage, transformed, is your gift.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

When I was your age, television was called books.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.