Gelett Burgess Quotes

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

In the beginning of my career, I read an article about the reason that men always look five years younger than women is because they shave.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Don't get me wrong - I like to look at the ladies as much as the next guy. But what in the hell do they do they have to do with wrestling? Nothing.

I think women are very attractive.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

When people are always telling you that you have to have a lot of women, women are very important, there's a chance that you might actually begin to observe them on a more fundamental level. Then you get so much focus that one day you might actually see. Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in a dangerous sort of way. Black-widow pretty. Artemis was expecting puberty to hit in approximately eight months, and he suspected that at that point he would look at Holly in a different light. It was probably just as well that she was eighty years old.

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.