Age Quotes · Page 161

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

— Terry Eagleton

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

— Thomas Paine

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

— Andre Gide

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

— Kyra Sedgwick

Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.

— Cicely Tyson

When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ...

— Jan Timman

Every day is a beginning and learning day - there is no right age to begin learning.

— Rajpal Yadav

I've skateboarded my whole life, and I'm going to keep enjoying it until my age prohibits me.

— Jimmi Simpson

Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note,…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

That's why I kept going with my school - I wasn't talented. That's what's the difficulty - you want to define key…

— Per Mertesacker

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got…

— Richard Branson

No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but one thing I can tell you, as…

— Albert Schweitzer

There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was…

— Dax Shepard

Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and…

— Richard Cohen

Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried…

— Quentin Dupieux

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to…

— James Gandolfini

There's a certain age when your height stops growing and you cannot change that. This sort of body growth cannot be fixed.…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into…

— Eckhart Tolle

I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my…

— Stephenie Meyer

One of the beautiful gifts of dance is that you're so in tune with your body so early on. I was very…

— Jenna Dewan

My breast cancer was caught very early thanks to my doctor a wonderful woman named Elsie Giogi, who just recently passed away…

— Kate Jackson

Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes…

— Andrew Haigh

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of…

— Anonymous

I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s,…

— Woody Allen

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

— Rufus Wainwright

There's always gonna be an audience that doesn't know me. I'm down with that, and thank God I age well.

— Michelle Buteau

The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

— Bette Lord

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

— Milton Glaser

At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.

— John Searles

This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

— David O. McKay

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

— Benjamin Haydon

I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.

— Danielle Fishel

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you,…

— Aristophanes

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile…

— Don DeLillo

With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.

— Rumaan Alam

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

— David Hume

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

— Michael Jackson

They should raise the alcohol age to 60, so at least you'd have something to look forward to at this point.

— Doug Stanhope

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

— Richard Armour

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

— Michael Caine