It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's… — Jake Simmons, Jr Copy Share Image
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend.… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?' — John Knoll Copy Share Image
I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation.… — Taylor Dane Copy Share Image
