Old People Take No More Crap Quotes & Sayings

My work is one long triumph over my limitations. — Charles Willeford

I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1, through my stabbing, and my comeback. — Monica Seles

During my time at Eton, I led regular nighttime adventures, and word spread. I even thought about charging to take people on trips.
I remember one where we tried to cross the whole town of Eton in the old sewers. I had found an old grill under a bridge that led into these four-foot-high old brick pipes, running under the streets.
It took a little nerve to probe into these in the pitch black with no idea where the hell they were leading you; and they stank.
I took a pack of playing cards and a flashlight, and I would jam cards into the brickwork every ten paces to mark my way. Eventually I found a manhole cover that lifted up, and it brought us out in the little lane right outside the headmaster's private house.
I loved that. "All crap flows from here," I remember us joking at that time. — Bear Grylls

I know. I must be pretty spectacular. — Ashlan Thomas

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. — Brian Eno

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. — Marcel Proust

Hey, where were you while the game was happening?" George asked. "I thought you were never coming back and I'd have to be pals with Jon Cartwright. Then I thought about being pals with Jon, was overwhelmed with despair, and decided to find one of the frogs I know are living in here, give it little frog glasses and call it Simon 2.0. — Cassandra Clare

Some things stay a little bit broken forever - even after they've been fixed. — Josephine Angelini

Wayne didn't interact with nature. He took pictures of it with his iPhone and then bent over the screen and poked at it. His favorite thing about the lake house was that it had Wi-Fi. — Joe Hill

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be. — Benjamin E. Mays

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke