Age Quotes - Page 55

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'

I still get very excited when people say they fall in love. It doesn’t matter how old you are, falling in love is a beautiful thing. And I still act like I did when I was a teenager. I get fluttery and tap dance around. I’m never afraid of making funny faces or being completely goofy.

In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless, they must stand undaunted. That is required. And that should be expected. For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.

Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin."

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.