Age Quote by Richard Hughes Download Open image “Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.” — Richard Hughes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Deaths Ever Middle Middle age More Out Sudden Talent Than Wars
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
“You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the opposing council… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Life seemed suddenly a little empty, for never again could there happen to her something so dangerous, so sublime.” — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“The punctilious magistrate, presiding in his bivouac of matting, vanished without punctilio.” — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Laura lay on her back in the faint light of the open hatch. She had discarded her blanket; and the vest which did duty… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the canvas, and… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“It would have surprised Mrs. Thornton very much to have been told that hitherto she had meant practically nothing to her children. She took… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Emily and Rachel had their hair cut short, and were allowed to do everything the boys did - to climb trees, swim, and trap… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have little faculty… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in full what… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image