Age Quotes - Page 232

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

Every advantage has its disadvantage.

Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky.

'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Having small group once a week gives me a lot of encouragement and accountability. Even though I go to church, I don't really know many people there, but my real community is my small group.

I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

I was a dumpy teenager. My mum was a model and was all about looks, so I rebelled by going goth. It took me years of peeling back the onion to finally stop using make-up as a mask and feel comfortable in my skin.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.