The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
~By Max Muller ~
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
~By Stephen Cohen ~
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
~By Margaret Mead ~
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
~By Dan Fogelberg ~
The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.
~By John Linder ~
Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
~By Bill Klem ~
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
~By Alexander Cockburn ~
Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.
~By Jane Mayer ~
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.
~By Bryan Miller ~
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
~By John Le Carre ~
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
~By Donald Johanson ~
If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
~By Frank Langella ~
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
~By Carla Bley ~
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
~By Brian Greene ~
As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
~By Diana Ross ~
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
~By Euripides ~
I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.
~By Michael Crawford ~
Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.
~By Norman Jewison ~
The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing.
~By Jason Statham ~
No man is ever old enough to know better.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.
~By William Petersen ~
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
~By Vincent Schiavelli ~
My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.
~By Desmond Llewelyn ~
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
~By Jean Paul ~
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
~By Alan Alda ~
I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.
~By Coolio ~
I'm just a tough old woman.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
~By Madeleine L'Engle ~
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
~By Milan Kundera ~
Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.
~By Dick Bruna ~
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~By Samuel Ullman ~
If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
~By Toni Morrison ~
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
~By Eileen Caddy ~
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
~By Barry McGuire ~
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
~By William Morris ~
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
~By Marian Anderson ~
You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.
~By Neve Campbell ~
It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
~By Jeffrey Eugenides ~
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
~By George Chapman ~
And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.
~By Arthur Rock ~
I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
~By Gerd von Rundstedt ~
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
~By Lee Child ~
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
~By Deana Carter ~
A library is thought in cold storage.
~By Herbert Samuel ~
If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.
~By Suge Knight ~
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
~By Jack Kirby ~
It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.
~By Jon Corzine ~
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
~By Horace Walpole ~
We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.
~By Robert Benchley ~
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
~By Marc Chagall ~
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.
~By Allen Weinstein ~
Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now.
~By Rick Dees ~
We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.
~By Gene Ween ~
The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.
~By Ahmed Chalabi ~
It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.
~By James Larkin ~
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
~By Allen Funt ~
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.
~By Little Milton ~
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
~By Denis Waitley ~
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
~By Robert Barclay ~
I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.
~By Max von Sydow ~
I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.
~By Mike Ditka ~
Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?
~By Bob Merrill ~
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
~By Chili Davis ~
I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
~By Christine Baranski ~
Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside.
~By Shelley Berman ~
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
~By Mark Twain ~
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
~By Mitch Albom ~
Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.
~By Gwen Verdon ~
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