Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed.
With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.
It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.
Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.
All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.
Having success at an early age gave me more of a sense of what's important in life rather than always driving to make it.
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.
Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.
You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.
That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.
One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.
Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
When you get to a certain age, you don't get lost. If you have a good set of pals around about you can have a great life.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.
If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.
I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.
At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.
What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.
In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.
Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.
I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
At 50 you now have realized ?Getting old isn't fair? And that it's hard to make a comeback ?When you haven't gone anywhere
'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.