"Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left"

-- George Burns

#Aging Quotes #Retiring Quotes #Shows Quotes

“I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches.”
“I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.”
“The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.”
“Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. Some people make us timid and shy; others elicit our sex appeal and dominance. In some groups we are made leaders, while in others we are reduced to being followers. We come to live up to or down to the expectations others have of us.”
“I'm in a comic book fan. I have long boxes at home. I'm a comic book collector; I'm not joking. It's just the coolest thing ever.”
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires.”
“The better you look, the more you see.”

Source : Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Glamorama”, p.121, Pan Macmillan
“A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.”

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