Age Quotes - Page 242

In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps roll their eyes, slick young businesswomen purse their mouths, teenagers look disgusted, waitresses anxious. But it strikes me as ironic that many members of the public fret about British Muslims donning the hijab, yet happily condone the veiling of nursing mothers.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.

I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

My wife gives good headache.

The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.

Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will. Third: He has selected me to explain this message. Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.

We love the things we love for what they are.

Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting average, but there were occasions when he felt we had just written the wrong piece for the situation he wanted. We invariably listened to what he wanted - he was very descriptive in what he wanted and we could read him. We'd go back to the drawing board and work out what he wanted. He was a great inspiration, but a tough taskmaster.

Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

We must kill the savage to save the man.

Time is the only commodity that matters.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.