In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.
It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's.
Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.
There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.
When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.
Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.
But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.
It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.
Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
Sex is difficult; yes. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.
