#age

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#awe-inspiring #enough #gotten #i #person

What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet, over-aged adolescents that we are, we persist in speaking sentimental drives about the delicacy of flowers. We construct idiotic phrases like "So-and-so is in the flower of his youth", which is as absurd as saying "in the vagina of his youth". ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#age

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#always #doing #early #early age #fraught

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. ↗

— John Armstrong

#each #every #exalts #grief #joy

remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #experience

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. ↗

— Paul Anka

#i #little #songs #stupid #talent

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#i #i think #identify #language #literature

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#catastrophe #country #heightened #inevitably #national

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. ↗

— Janos Arany

#allegiance #consistently #face #frenzied #graver

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#end #i #lose #moment #shall