Age Of Extremes Quotes

#1. This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying ... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice ... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks ... but nobody loved it.

Alfred Bester

#2. Youth is the age of extremes: "if the young commit a fault it is always on the side of excess and exaggeration." The great difficulty of youth (and of many of youth's elders) is to get out of one extreme without falling into its opposite.

Will Durant

#3. Whether I am on a stage, behind a guitar or in front of a camera, I get paid to misbehave. Fortunately, misbehaviour is something I have unlimited supply of.

Vir Das

#4. It's a joyful thing, being a Catholic. I can't even think about sex without thinking about bodily waste.

Kevin Smith

#5. On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.

Marcia Sirota

#6. In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#7. When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable ...

Rajneesh

#8. The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.

Steve Jobs

#9. I'm the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft.

Bill Hader

#10. My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

Kevin Spacey

#11. The more you love, the more you crave.

Nicole Kidman

#12. They say you can't build Rome in a day, but I'm pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.

Kris Kidd

#13. Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of

Veronica Roth

#14. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature

Isaac Marion

#15. The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.

Ron White

#16. There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn't going to hang my hat up on my musical career.

Glenn Tipton