Age Quotes - Page 218

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.