#age

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#makes #man #mistake #thoughts #wine

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enterprises #expect #few #great #had

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#fine #meet #out #over #particularly

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#get #i #i wish #make #me

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#grave #green #grey #his #locks

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#excel #kids #much #pressure #put

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world. ↗

— Lara St. John

#age #certain #certain age #female #hit

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#best #improve #like #men #some

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#hell #i #inherent #just #make

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #become #being #bring #condition