Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. ”

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. ”

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. ”

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. ”

You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well. ”

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno. ”

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. ”

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ”

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ”

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. ”