Walter Savage Landor Quotes
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Quotes to Explore
-
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
-
I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
-
I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
-
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
-
I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
-
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
-
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
-
Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
-
I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
-
One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
-
I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
-
I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
-
There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
-
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
-
Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
-
I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
-
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
-
I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
-
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.
-
When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
-
Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
-
That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.
-
I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
-
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
