Venerableness Quotes

#1. People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.

Robert Thurman

#2. History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,
when did burdock and plantain sprout first?

Henry David Thoreau

#3. I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.

Ben Roethlisberger

#4. Every time I work with real Southern actors ... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

Lucas Till

#5. Wine is like the incarnation
it is both divine and human

Paul Tillich

#6. There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Umberto Eco

#7. A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.

Terry Pratchett

#8. At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

Jules Michelet

#9. Does this mean you're going to marry me then?"
"I've only been pestering you to marry me since the day we met, Daniel. What clued you in that I'd be interested other than that?

Lauren Dane

#10. I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

Jessica Pare

#11. Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Nhat Hanh

#12. To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.

Bob Lewis

#13. Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during the time these things were made and how they've changed through history.

Jacob Hashimoto

#14. I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

Rebekah Brooks

#15. When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

Mickey Hart