Age Quotes - Page 86

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.

To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.

The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

I date this girl for two years-and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name...'

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.