E. J. Hughes Quotes

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

E. J. Hughes

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• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Great
  • Age
  • Dream

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Age
  • Man
  • Shape

• Hope is not a matter of age.

  

  Abbe Pierre
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  • Age
  • Matter

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
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  • Common Sense

• My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Good
  • School
  • She

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
  • Young
  • Falling

• While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Age
  • Cancer

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Age
  • Fear
  • Old Age

• I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Together
  • Age
  • Dream

• I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Age

• Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Money
  • Age
  • Fashion

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Business
  • Age
  • Success

• The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Age
  • Know
  • Daughter

• I believe there's no reason why we couldn't be entering a new age of musical theater if we continue to nurture young talent, take risks, and give them a playing field.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Age

• We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

  

  Ken Jennings

• Scientology is not that different from other religions. And yet, at the same time, we don't have Anglicans doing the things that are alleged to be done in Scientology, at least in the Sea Org.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Small
  • Light

• My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

  

  Jay Ryan
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Looks