Pensionable Quotes & Sayings

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still. — Terry Pratchett

For me it's connection-the pleasure of an expansive, long-ranging dinner conversation with people who do all sorts of things and being able to come back to that night, night after night, and pick up threads and follow them. There's a voyeuristic pleasure, there's a synthetic pleasure, but primarily it's the pleasure of being able to live in a frame of time that the rest of life conspires to annihilate. — Richard Powers

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage — Richard Paul Evans

You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you! — Deyth Banger

The Left has failed to understand the extent to which its intolerant, often coercive, approach to issues that permit good-willed disagreement has turned off voters who might otherwise be sympathetic to their general program. — Ian Tuttle

Playing my drums is therapy. — Travis Barker

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation — L. Ron Hubbard

I keep my feet on the ground because of my roots and the way I was raised. — Percy Sledge

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade. — John Travolta

I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion. — Gloria Steinem

Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder. — Murong Xuecun

I'd like to go back to five years old again. Just sometimes. To be turning over rocks and looking for pill bugs and holding earthworms, playing dolls, erecting forts, digging through dirt for marbles, burrowing in leaf piles, failing at igloo building, when my biggest concern was going to sleep with the lights off. I wish I was five again, before things got hard, before I was forced to grow up way too early and been stuck in this "adult" thing way too long. I wish I could sit in my Grandpa's lap and let him sing me crazy Irish songs and go over the names of the planets. "Gwampa, tell me about Outer Space." ... "Gwampa, sing the Swimming Song."
I wish I could go back there, just for a little while, and pick raspberries by myself in the sun and find secret hideaways and not hurt, not worry, not carry the heavy things. If I could be five years old ... just for a few minutes. Remember what it felt like to be free. That would be something. — Jennifer DeLucy

The red sun pulled itself from sleep and glared upon the world that it must still serve, though itself of more than pensionable age. — George R R Martin

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old. — Dolly Parton

Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz. — Tom Peters

Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom. — Louis Hoffman