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Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.
But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.
I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think about surviving.
Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.
TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.
Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.
I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age.
I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths
Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.
As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.
Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.
Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.
There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.