Late Quotes - page 66

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar. (Frederic William Farrar)
When I was in my late teens, a couple of friends passed away suddenly. This was quite distressing, but after a while, as tends to happen when one is once or twice removed from grief, I stopped thinking about them all the time. View quote
Ayobami Adebayo
I became a dancer late and an actor late. View quote
Mads Mikkelsen
I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds. View quote
Myron Scholes
I came late to the genre of folk music. View quote
Tom Morello
Schnabel said that Beethoven's late piano sonatas are music better than could be played. Larkin's best poems are poetry better than can be said, but sayability they sumptuously offer. Larkin demands to be read aloud. His big, intricately formed stanzas, often bridging from one to the next, defeat the single breath but always invite it. As you read, the ideal human voice speaks in your head. It isn't his: as his gramophone records prove, he sounded like someone who expects to be interrupted. It isn't yours, either. It's ours. View quote
Clive James
Back in the late 1950s, on the sleeve of the Beyond the Fringe record album, Jonathan Miller made a dark joke about his worst fear: being tortured for information that he did not possess. The assumption behind the joke was that if he had something to reveal, the agony would stop. He was looking back to a world of polite British fiction, not to a world of brute European fact. In the Nazi and Soviet cellars and camps, people were regularly tortured for information they did not possess: i.e. they were tortured just for the hell of it. View quote
Clive James
Neglected by Congress below; pinched with every want here; distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army - which may rather be called a great rabble - our late unhappy retreat from Quebec, and loss of the Cedars; our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us; are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them. View quote
Benedict Arnold
No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late. View quote
David Spade
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. View quote
Martin Amis
You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. (Tom Petty)
I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the French Left in 1978. Conversely, my first non-academic publication, a review in the 'TLS', did not come until the late 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that I published my first piece in the 'New York Review.' View quote
Tony Judt
It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character. View quote
Eric Holder
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us. View quote
Jerry Garcia
I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win. View quote
Tom Brady
It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late. View quote
Michael Chabon
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Of late the nights are dawning plum-blossom white. View quote
Yosa Buson
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart. View quote
Terry Eagleton
To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
I am already late, I fear. What time is it? View quote
Michael Moorcock
I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man. View quote
Jonathan Franzen
In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground. View quote
Henry Rollins
Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me. View quote
Henry Rollins