Age Quotes - Page 31

A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!

Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.

A succulent wild woman is one of any age who feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.

I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers.

There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yourself be inspired and even changed by the unique qualities of the place where you're building. We always try to take the second approach.

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.