Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying. ”

I think people who don't go away to university are missing out on one of the great life experiences. You meet people from so many different places and it's the shared life experience that helps you grow. ”

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ”

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. ”

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. ”

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life. ”

Families interest me - I'm part of one; most of us come from one. And I'm curious about the choices made in life, how they affect things, and how those choices happen. ”

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form? ”

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to. ”

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. ”