Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. ”

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. ”

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. ”

I have to accept my life is different to most people. ”

I was not interested in luxuries because I had an elegant life as a child. My family, very aristocratic, one of the richest in Colombia, educated me like a princess, in the English style. ”

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. ”

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. And this is one reason that modes of transportation tend to be extremely glamorous. The less experience we have with them, the more glamorous they are. So you can do a glamorized picture of a car, but you can't do a glamorized picture of traffic. ”

I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life. ”

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. ”

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell. ”