Age Quotes - Page 239

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

You can't test courage cautiously.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Our response to an event is more important than the event itself.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one day and said: 'Dad, being bald and wearing shorts doesn't look good together'.

Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.

I looked at [Goering eating sausage] and I knew that what they say was true: that pigs eat the flesh of their own.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

Boldness be my friend.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

You are free to love without an agenda

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.