"And like most middle-aged people who hear the……" — James Lee Burke
"And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money."
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55 Quotes by James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke has 55 quotes on this site.
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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent…
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and…
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Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever…
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...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the…
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard…
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That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can…
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When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your…
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There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
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But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned…
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I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make…
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
— Julie Bishop
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
— David Bowie
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with…
— George Washington Carver
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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the…
— John Ciardi
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
— Virginia Woolf
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe…
— Geronimo
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An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the…
— Lydia M. Child
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