Middle Aged Moralizing Quotes & Sayings

I think a lot of us have some form of body dysmorphia ... You're looking in the mirror, and you're kind of disassociated in some way. I think a good reminder is to actually, physically touch yourself. 'Ah, okay, this is what my arm feels like. It's not what I'm mutating in my head. I'm not some sort of scary monster.' — Mary Lambert

Days pass, time ticks away, seconds click forward like dominoes toppling in a line. — Lauren Oliver

I still talk incessantly about 'SCTV,' and I say, 'Screw the kids!' — Paul Shaffer

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe. — Rebecca Romijn

'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does. — John Logan

In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural environment, but in TV, it's more acceptable to do something crazy and break with naturalism. — Takashi Miike

It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy. — Yoshijiro Umezu

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't. — Crispin Glover

It reminded him of a science fiction novel that he'd read once; in it, the characters had a tendency to say ominously that 'winter was coming' and Sin had to fight the urge to say the words out loud with the exact same ominous feeling behind. — Ais

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing. — C.S. Lewis

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown. — Jeffrey Robinson

It's way too tense. Someone's either going to get into a fight or cry. Neither option is preferable. — Melina Marchetta

The first thing I want to make clear is that this violence, this terrorism, is not cultural. It isn't
integral either to Arab or Muslim culture. I've done too many briefings for senators and congressmen who think that all 'towelheads' carry a pistol and a grenade. If you can't see beyond this stereotype, then we might as well stop now. — Steven Gould

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch. — A.P. Herbert