I want to age with some dignity. - Pete Townshend

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.

Pete Townshend

I want to age with some dignity.

Age, Dignity, Want

Same Author Quotes

Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about.

Crazy, Rocks, Roll, Run, Running

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Mind, Music, Opening

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

Everything, Mistake, Mistakes, Perfect, Remember, Trying

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Doe, Inspirational Music, Let, Rock, Rocks, Roll

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

Acquisitive, Class System, Law, Long, Organisations, Wealth

Similar Quotes

R. Buckminster Fuller

Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.

Generalized, Give, Giving, Instances, Mind, Special

Mary Robinson

I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately afterwards, but then some of those women who were involved in the movement got involved in representative positions and perhaps some of them got a bit distanced from the grassroots issues. But also the women's movement itself seemed to say, "No, we've got our own government, our own parties in power" and they sat back.

Government, Issues, Movement, Party, Power, Struggle

Frederick Jackson Turner

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

Exists, Land, Long, Opportunity, Political

Mark Ruffalo

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

Breathing, Engage, Humans, Sex, Sleep

Israel Horovitz

Art, Beach, Garage, Safe, Theatre, Writing