"Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age"

-- George Santayana

#Inspiration Quotes #Age Quotes #Youth Quotes

“This is the premiere food symposium in the world. To quote you guys: 'Intended to invoke a sense of courage and urgency...Enabling this year's symposium to become a venue where we can reflect on the stories and ideas that no one usually gets the opportunity to tell.' So I stand here with the guts to ask you, please, let's do something. Let's do something and feed those that we're not reaching collectively.”
“The information is in the people, not in your head.”
“I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.”
“Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.”

Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books
“... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.”
“I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.”
“It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.”
“I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.”

Source : "Into the Crazy Closet With Roz Chast". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2014.

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