Age Quotes - Page 252

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers, who say, 'It's something the whole family can watch, and it lets us show our younger children that one man's 'weird' is another man's 'wonderful,' and we all kind of live in the same place.' It's just the best part of my day.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.