Age Quotes - Page 60

For the average audience, the credits tell them there's only three minutes left to eat popcorn. I take this ‘dead’ period and try to do more than simply get rid of names that filmgoers aren't interested in. I aim to set up the audience for what's coming; make them expectant.

The people who can do you the most damage are the ones who are closest to you.

...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

Wedlock is a padlock.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.