"I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other."

-- Ava Gardner

#Scotch Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Hands Quotes

“What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns appropriate to their own lives through which they can see variety, regularity, and interconnections.”
“Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Steve Young: Here's a guy that is really a talent. He's the best athlete we ever had. He could run, he developed into a good thrower. He's smart. He's intense. He could make it in the movies. Really, he's got it all. He was coachable, but he had his own ideas. He never let up, not even in practice. I'd take Steve Young every year.”
“I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.”
“One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.”
“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”
“There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1960). “Her”, p.24, New Directions Publishing
“I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.”
“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change”

You may also like:

Elizabeth Taylor
Actress
Frank Sinatra
Singer
Katharine Hepburn
Actress
Lana Turner
Film actress
Lauren Bacall
Film actress
Mickey Rooney
Film actor
Nancy Sinatra
Singer
Rita Hayworth
Dancer
Sophia Loren
Actress