Age Quotes - Page 233

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Music without a message is just sound

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

I'd declare all the world's resources as a common heritage of all the world's people and get them to join and become one nation who takes care of the environment, the earth, the atmosphere. I'd abolish all separate nations because they are all corrupt.

I'm against cronyism, and I had to learn that early on. Like, I don't have an entourage, because I saw the negative effects of those things.

Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Strength, courage & wisdom...it's been inside of me all along.

Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.