"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#Birthday Quotes #Art Quotes #Age Quotes

“I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.”
“When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.”
“The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.”
“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.”
“Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.”

Source : Bentley Little (1997). “The Ignored”, Signet
“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.”
“You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2004). “Foul Matter”, p.51, Penguin

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