'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's yard at 35.
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.
I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.
When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.
Humility and Trustworthiness are not rooted only in Presentation, Voice modulation or Nice Jorgan but in Actions and Intentions that speak louder than you do and they last longer
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.
I'd sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don't have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice.
I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
