The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.
Laurence Housman

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
Bill Haley

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
Jeff Cooper

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.
Alex North

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Katherine Whitehorn

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
Benoit Mandelbrot

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
Agnes Martin

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
Constance Baker Motley

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
Jason Alexander

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
Jerry Falwell

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.
Peter Buck

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
Harry Mathews

When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.
Robbie Fowler

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
Fred Rogers