Age Quotes - Page 194

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people told that they do not count – your agency is worthless, your experiences are worthless, and your voice should remain silent – but they are also told that there is no alternative to current state of affairs.

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ's.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.