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“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
— Victor Hugo
“I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.”
— Victor Hugo
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
— Franz Kafka
“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
— Franz Kafka
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
— Franz Kafka
“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.”
— Franz Kafka
“Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.”
— Franz Kafka
“My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.”
— Willie Nelson
“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.”
— Jawaharlal Nehru
“Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. ”
— Ovid
“Venus favors the bold.”
— Ovid
“The bold adventurer succeeds the best.”
— Ovid
“Every lover is a soldier. ”
— Ovid
“Against the bold, daring is unsafe.”
— Ovid
“The gods behold all righteous actions.”
— Ovid
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
— William Shakespeare
“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
— William Shakespeare
“I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.”
— Dennis Quaid
“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”
— Robert Redford
“Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.”
— Robert Rodriguez
“I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.' ”
— Robert Rodriguez
“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”
— Robert Rodriguez
“My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.”
— Quentin Tarantino
“I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.”
— Serj Tankian
“Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“You could’ve told me before that your heart wasn’t in it, fine. But don’t try to get a start at the finish line.”
— Drake
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