Richard Nelson Bolles Quotes

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

Richard Nelson Bolles

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• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Change

• I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Brain

• We live too long for one marriage.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Long
  • Live
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Try

• My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • She
  • Age
  • Mom

• The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Night

• I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Long
  • Island

• Youth, large, lusty, loving-Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Age

• As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Different
  • Long
  • Job

• My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Up
  • Long

• I look back at pictures of myself in high school, and I was a cheerleader, and I had hair just as thick if not thicker and long - down to my hips.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • Long
  • Women
  • Distance

• I like living with a character for a really long time and what can open up with that.

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.

  

  Jerry Trainor
  • Live
  • School
  • High

• I have to physically attracted to someone. But I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because orgasms don't last long enough.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Great
  • Long
  • Sex

• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Him

• And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Art
  • Perception

• I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.

  

  Avicii
  • Great
  • Galaxy

• One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

  

  Richard Nelson Bolles
  • Long
  • Age
  • Night