“It was surprisingly crowded, a bunch of middle-aged people, mostly women, moving enthusiastically, if a bit awkwardly, to Prince’s “Little Red Corvette,”… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“They were all men, all middle-aged, all of a type: intelligent and elitist, yet deferential to the point of groveling before the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“You’re young, and like anything new. It’s change you want. I’m middle-aged, and there’s nothing staler to me than change. Constant comfort… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient,… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I vividly remember being in my mid- to late-20s. That part of life is very emotional, and exciting, and dramatic in a… — Ed Brubaker Copy Share Image
In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“He rests his head against the mirror and exhales. In the years he was with Emma he sometimes wondered idly what it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Young People! Do not gloat about your youth, because you have a long and treacherous path to negotiate before you reach the… — Irene Dische Copy Share Image
My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think Ive become more old-fashioned. I feel like Im already turning middle-aged now. Its quite nice to be doing a series… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction.… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“I’m crying all the time now. I cried all over the street when I left the Seattle Wobbly Hall. I cried listening… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. To subdue one’s self to one’s own ends… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I've never planned ahead.I just sort of go through life checking the menu of three meals that day. I never worry about… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“It's easy now - it's middle-aged lady, nobody's looking, nobody notices. I go without lipstick if I feel like it, and I… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
"Plaza de la Soledad" is a documentary about Carmen, Lety, Raquel and Esther, four strong women - middle-aged and older - who… — Maya Goded Copy Share Image
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image