Jens Voigt Quotes

I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?

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• I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Change
  • Red
  • Envy

• I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Eyes
  • Government
  • Impossible

• Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Together
  • Listening
  • Actor

• I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.

  

  Florence Green
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • World
  • Man
  • Lucky

• I was supremely fortunate to do several projects that I'm really excited about. So within all that, there's a lot going on this year. I'm excited about 2016.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Year
  • Going
  • Within

• The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Thought

• Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • Day

• I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

  

  Imelda May
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Penny

• Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
  • Work
  • Daily

• Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Short

• I'm basically nocturnal.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Basically
  • Nocturnal

• I was struck with that particular passage which says: 'Seek ye the kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be added unto you.'

  

  Nat Turner
  • Heaven

• The fraction of Americans working in occupations concerned primarily with information has increased from 20 to nearly 50 percent of the work force.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work

• Errantes silva in magna et sub luce malignainter harundineasque comas gravidumque papaveret tacitos sine labe lacus, sine murmure rivos,quorum per ripas nebuloso lumine marcentfleti, olim regum et puerorum nomina, flores.

  

  Ausonius

• The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the computer-aided instruction drill systems - the hopes have been dashed in terms of technology having some big impact. The foundation, I think can play a unique role there. Now, our money is more to the teacher-effectiveness thing, and technology is No. 2, but I'll probably spend more money on the technology things.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Dreams
  • Spanish
  • Projectors

• The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Interest

• There is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Law

• What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I came out at 17.

  

  Chirlane McCray

• I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?

  

  Jens Voigt