Age Quotes - Page 240

Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.

A goal without a method is nonsense.

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

When you get the message, hang up the phone.

Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.

For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.

We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.

Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps to get across what's on the page, and I just love working with directors who allow that.

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me. But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.