Age Quotes - Page 195

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.