Age Quotes - Page 229

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Sometimes, the most courageous act a human can do is to let somebody love them

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it.

I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity to thank teachers who have influenced me. I encourage everyone to seize opportunities to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

I see a sea of networkers all doing and saying the same things. They look alike, act alike and sound alike when speaking to prospects. If you want to rise above the average, mediocre networker... then you have to think differently.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.