Mark E. Smith Quotes

It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.

The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.

I came to Congress hoping to change the world; I now hope to be able to leave with my dignity.

Your not going to change the hearts and minds. You have to change to law.

The age of eighteen, far more than the age of twenty-one, has been and is the age of maturity in America—and never more than now.

I've been in different countries, and a girl will come up and say, 'I love you. We are going to get married someday!' And I'm like, 'You're 11!'

Education reforms must be the priority for governments.

I learned that if you wait long enough, you just grow older.

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.