#young man

The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well. ↗

— Gale Gordon

#against #because #done #embarrassed #felt

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#feast #go #life #lived #lucky

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#came #hollywood #i #i am #man

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#behind #doing #dream #fortune #going

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect. ↗

— James Payn

#enough #fact #having #him #his

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#language #man #many #other #preferable

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ↗

— Robert Southey

#god #good #loves #man #sent

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war. ↗

— John Edward Christopher Hill

#believing #going #i #killed #man

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#far #i #man #possessing #range

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. ↗

— George Santayana

#laugh #man #older #older man #savage