Tom Lehrer Quotes

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

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• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Age
  • Justice

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Age
  • Black
  • Hair

• My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Age

• It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Age

• I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Age
  • Career
  • Growing

• It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Problems
  • Old Age

• Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.

  

  Zendaya
  • Work
  • Age
  • Just

• Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Love
  • Age
  • Find

• When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • School
  • Age
  • Acting

• It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Country
  • Age
  • Amazing

• The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Age
  • Celebrity
  • Editors

• What shall I do to be forever known,And make the age to come my own?

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Age
  • Forever

• What have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards in an age which advances progressively backwards?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Age

• Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or losing oneself in God is the age-old tragedy in which each must play his part.

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • Age
  • Heaven

• Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Words
  • Wise

• That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Good
  • Heart

• Attitudes toward gays have shifted much like they have for animals. People have a hard time relating to those who are different and often strike out against them in ignorance. But society is really starting to wise up at last as more enlightened generations emerge.

  

  Dan Mathews
  • Wise
  • Animal
  • Attitude

• It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Age
  • Dead