At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life.
David H. Murdock
Related I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy ... SHARON STONE I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and wil... GORDON PARKS I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launch... GENEVIEVE GORDER I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young ch... HARRISON FORD I'm 23 years old and still wearing pigtails. HANNAH KEARNEY Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and bui... PAIGE BUTCHER At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays... ROSE TREMAIN I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every bo... CHARLAINE HARRIS If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at p... LISA SNOWDON After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new st... FRED DELUCA I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - ... KARRINE STEFFANS There is no doubt I'm learning new things and progressing with David Moyes. The sessions we have... ROBIN VAN PERSIE I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hea... KAREN TRAVISS I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And... DAN GILROY I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl. HALSTON SAGE Life is settled and I'm enjoying it. CHARLIE ADAM At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pu... DEBORAH BULL I'm usually just enjoying life. ALAN JACKSON People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. Pe... GAIL DEVERS My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which... PETER STRAUB Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in... ED KOCH I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life. DAR WILLIAMS I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it t... ERNEST GAINES Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof. MARISKA HARGITAY I'm enjoying life at my fullest. Sometimes you realize that money isn't everything. REY MYSTERIO When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'... RALPH PETERS We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully. RANDY PAUSCH Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to lear... JEFF AMENT I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of ... CARL PALADINO My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writi... CHRIS CRUTCHER Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. AARON PEIRSOL Once (Zuccarelli) found out that David Miller had total intention of running ? that he filed ? he su... BOB STORMAN I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now... ALFRED MOLINA Native Americans' families experience living surrounded, living in increasingly small reservatio... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for... ETHAN CANIN I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day. DANNY STRONG I had a good record company right from the beginning, and I'm still with them after all these ye... JOHNNY MATHIS I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I... SAM SMITH I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sol... TED CHIANG I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood. KATE CHOPIN I'm a responsible soul. But anyone who has the chance to spend time with me can see I'm stil... JORDIN SPARKS Enjoying Every Moment of Life with a lot of Fun! RAMESH KUMAR JHA Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I ... NATALIE MORALES I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone... VIDYA BALAN I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've... ADAM HUGHES The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymu... CAROLINA HERRERA Everything was to be experienced at the highest pitch of passion and life. To expect something great... NINA GEORGE I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm eve... FELICE PICANO I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofba... DUFF GOLDMAN I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her im... SHERYL SANDBERG I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot ... LL COOL J It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school. RICK MERCER I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level. DANA CARVEY I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.' FRANK SERPICO I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what... SAMUEL GOLDWYN We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and chall... ANN RICHARDS I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two. JACK KILBY I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. BILLY ZANE I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married ... JACLYN SMITH After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skil... RHYS DARBY My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still ... MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy ... CHARLES S. DUTTON I still find new things every night, which is the beauty and fun of live theater. It's a living,... BRANDON URANOWITZ There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm ... PETER HELLER We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'... JANE FONDA I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it... HEATH LEDGER I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritu... BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I'll be 50 years old and still have to call my mom when I'm home at night. No matter what ti... CASSIE SCERBO I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm fro... CELINE DION I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a ve... IOAN GRUFFUDD I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding. JENNIFER HUDSON While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games ... MARCUS SAMUELSSON It's a very good new business for Moses Lake. Their parent company, Columbia Ventures, is a very str... BOB FANCHER I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as o... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live ... MIGUEL COTTO I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. LADY GAGA I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old. DEMI LOVATO I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best... GELILA BEKELE If you watch home videos, at 4 years old, I was doing nothing but being the entertainer. Singing ... THOMAS RHETT I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the ... ADAM SILVERA I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch. GERALDO RIVERA I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more... BRIAN J. WHITE I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day. DEVON SAWA It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was... LIBBY TRICKETT I'm concerned with the future. I'm concerned with my life, my present, my friends, people I ... JEFF BUCKLEY I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every yo... CILLA BLACK I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old. OLIVIA D'ABO I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people pri... SAMM LEVINE Every day, something new gets thrown at me, and I'm like, 'How did this happen?' I'v... LILLY SINGH I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them. BARTON GELLMAN Clearly, earnings are slower this year and there's not a new catalyst, but we still like the company... JOAN STORMS At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking bac... DWYANE WADE I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I sti... CHRIS LOWELL Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also record... ERIC WHITACRE I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. YANN MARTEL I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life. JOEL OSTEEN I was a painter, perhaps, but I am not any longer a painter. I didn't paint for many, many years - b... ARNOLD SCHOENBERG I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news busin... TED TURNER I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket sci... RACHAEL RAY I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too fam... CHAD SMITH
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MUNRO People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul... H. H. MUNRO In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. H. H. MUNRO If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry. H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed. H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA An Altar in life, alters our life. H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Important things are not things. H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA The softest pillow is a clean conscience. H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Respect, don't suspect. H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA If we want to realize our dreams, we have to stay awake. H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive. H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Success is a self-fulfilling prophecy. H. H. 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(DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I shall always be a priest of love. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men a... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the w... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the int... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I can't do with mountains at close quarters -- they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, n... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are lik... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness an... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himsel... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versati... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much mor... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks c... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffin... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, a... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations ba... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in the people. One class is no better than an... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Never trust the teller, trust the tale. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE God is only a great imaginative experience. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But i... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me, That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, an... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself; A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an abs... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment comp... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my a... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn De... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeolo... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she a... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE