because Quotes

“Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.;Larry Hagman;age 586;I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.;Rod Stewart;age 587;At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.;Rod Stewart;age 588;I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.;David Bailey;age 589;My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.;Kristen Stewart;age 590;I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.;Kristen Stewart;age 591;At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.;Jessica Lange;age 592;TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.;Jessica Lange;age 593;Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.;Charlotte Bronte;age 594;At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.;Flannery O'Connor;age 595;Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.;Dee Dee Myers;age 596;I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.;Brandon Boyd;age 597;I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.;Alexander McQueen;age 598;When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.;Jason Kidd;age 599;We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.;Thomas Frank;age 600;The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.;Mary Wollstonecraft;age 601;In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.;Mary Wollstonecraft;age 602;Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.;John Mayer;age 603;I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.;John Mayer;age 604;When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.;Brian Clough;age 605;Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.;Willa Cather;age 606;I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.;Jewel;age 607;I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.;George Clooney;age 608;Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.;Georg C. Lichtenberg;age 609;You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.;Salma Hayek;age 610;America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.;Meryl Streep;age 611;I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.;Evel Knievel;age 612;I think I'm past the age of getting lost.;Amanda Seyfried;age 613;I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.;Joni Mitchell;age 614;I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!”

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”

“I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.”

“I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.”

“My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.”

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.”

“People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.”

“I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.”