Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Bluebeard's Egg

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Bureaucracy

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Alan Alda

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

Albert Brooks

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Annie Dillard

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

Ahmet Zappa

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

Catherine Jinks

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

Carson Kressley

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Christopher Lasch

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Don Marquis

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

Fiona Apple

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Francisco de Quevedo

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

George Saunders

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

George Edward Woodberry

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

Howard Schultz

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Jane Fonda

The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.

Josh Schwartz

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

Mary Karr