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“Young has a personal relationship with electricity. In Europe, where the electrical current is sixty cycles, not fifty, he can pinpoint the fluctuation --- by degrees. It dumbfounded Cragg. "He'll say, 'Larry, there's a hundred volts coming out of the wall, isn't there?' I'll go measure it, and yeah, sure --- he can hear the difference."
Shakey's innovations are everywhere. Intent on controlling amp volume from his guitar instead of the amp, Young had a remote device designed called the Whizzer. Guitarists marvel at the stomp box that lies onstage at Young's feet: a byzantine gang of effects that can be utilized without any degradation to the original signal. Just constructing the box's angular red wooden housing to Young's extreme specifications had craftsmen pulling their hair out.
Cradled in a stand in front of the amps is the fuse for the dynamite, Young's trademark ax--Old Black, a '53 Gold Top Les Paul some knot-head daubed with black paint eons ago. Old Black's features include a Bigsby wang bar, which pulls strings and bends notes, and Firebird picking so sensitive you can talk through it. It's a demonic instrument. "Old black doesn't sound like any other guitar," said Cragg, shaking his head.
For Cragg, Old Black is a nightmare. Young won't permit the ancient frets to be changed, likes his strings old and used, and the Bigsby causes the guitar to go out of tune constantly. "At Sound check, everything will work great. Neil picks up the guitar, and for some reason that's when things go wrong.”
Source: Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
“Young heads take example of the ancient”
“Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.”
Source: Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
“Young Henry was conscious, this night, that he had lived for fifteen tedious years without accomplishing any single thing of importance. And had his mother known his feeling she would have said,
'He is growing.'
And his father would have repeated after her,
'Yes, the boy is growing.' But neither would have understood what the other meant.”
Source: Cup of Gold
“Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.”
Source: Gösta Berling's Saga
“Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans. This is what my crew tells me and my own observations seem to confirm it”
Source: Artificial Condition
“Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.”
“Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.”
Source: The Quality of Mercy
“Young Juiceman, he a flamer!”
“Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.”
“Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.”
“Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.”
“Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.”
“Young kids out here see what's on TV and feel like they can start rapping. They think rappers are rich and really have their own jets and Bentleys, but in lot of cases that stuff is rented.”
“Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.”
“Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
“Young ladies ... who fall in love, never consider whether there is sufficient "to make the pot boil" - probably because young ladies in love lose their appetites, and, not feeling inclined to eat at that time, they imagine that love will always supply the want of food.”
Source: The Pirate
“Young ladies who think of nothing but dress, public amusements, and forming what they call high connexions, are undoubtedly most easily managed, by the fear of what the world will say of them.”
Source: Works
“Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.”
Source: Salmagundi: or, the Whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and others. vol. 1, 2. no. 1-20. 24 Jan. 1807-25 Jan. 1808
“Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.”
“Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.”
“Young love don't know nothin' when the radio plays you sing along. When she's holding on you just can't get close enough, you swear it's sent from above. It's real,it's good, and it's young love”
“Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?”
Source: Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up
“Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.”
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life to another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.”
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.”
Source: Middlemarch: Easyread Edition
“Young lovers are always doomed.”
“Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.”
Source: The Spirit of Pessimism
“Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.”
Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel
“Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together. And of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. - How to make an American Quilt”
“Young man, be of good courage. Care not for what the world says or thinks: you will not be with the world always. Can man save your soul? No. Will man be your judge in the great and dreadful day of account? No. Can man give you a good conscience in life, a good hope in death, a good answer in the morning of resurrection? No! no! no! Man can do nothing of the sort. Then "fear not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings: for the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool" (Isa. 51:7,8). Call to your mind the saying of good Colonel Gardiner: "I fear God, and therefore I have none else to fear." Go and be like him.”
Source: Thoughts for Young Men
“Young man”, Edith said. “This is the best stout I’ve ever had in my life.” She just didn’t add that it was the first and only stout she’d ever had in her life, but she felt that this was how sales were done.”
Source: The Lager Queen of Minnesota
“Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.”
Source: The lightning thief
“Young man,' she said to Bill Forrester, 'you are a person of taste and imagination. Also, you have the will power of ten men; otherwise you would not dare veer away from the common flavors listed on the menu and order, straight out, without quibble or reservation, such an unheard-of things as lime-vanilla ice.'
He bowed his head solemnly to her.
'Come sit with me, both of you,' she said. 'We'll talk of strange ice creams and such things as we seem to have a bent for.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“Young man, the fact that she did not accept your proposal for a relationship does not define why you should hate her. She may not become your BRIDE, but she can be the BRIDGE you have to cross to the other side with your dreams!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.”
“Young man, we find our place in this world, we don't force our way in it!”
Source: False Dandelions
“Young man you are strong.”
“Young man you strong, thereof, use your strength to fulfill your dreams.”
“Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.”
“Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.”
“Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.”
“Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game”
“Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
“Young man, make your name worth something.”
“Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.”
Source: Soul Mountain
“Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”
“Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.”