After Quotes

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.