Age Quotes - Page 231

Teenagers are obviously God's punishment for having sex in the first place.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

If it's not bourbon or sweatpants, it's going in the garbage.... No, don't get creative. Now is not a creative time. Now is a bourbon and sweatpants time.

We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.

A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.