"The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it."

-- Norman Rockwell

#Age Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Hell Quotes

“Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.”
“No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.”
“God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.”
“After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.”
“You always want to walk a tight-rope of flavor”
“A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.”
“Women like jewelry. They're like racoons: show them some shiny stuff and they'll follow you home.”
“If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you.”

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