Careless famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.

  • No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

  • Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

  • The chief source of problems is solutions.

  • There’s no way I’m going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

  • With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

  • The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.

  • I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

  • I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.

  • Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.