Certain Age Quotes

129 quotes by 119 authors

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working. — Matt Haig
I still donâ€™t get why I have to eat breakfast if you donâ€™t,â€ Josie muttered. â€œBecause you have to be a certain age to earn… — Lisa Kleypas
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry,… — Umberto Eco
After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful… — Meg Wolitzer
I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're… — Helen Fielding
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have… — Colm Toibin
We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we… — Ranbir Kapoor
I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age. — John Updike
In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing. — Peter Riegert
I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit… — Lara St. John
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true… — Annie Dillard
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. — Douglas Coupland
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you… — John Carpenter
One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of… — William Hazlitt
We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I'm not being blase about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might… — Bill Hicks
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days. — Richard Schickel
A lady of a 'certain age', which means Certainly aged. — Lord Byron
Join my Bridget Jones club for lonely women of a certain age, where we wear big knickers, get pissed, do karaoke and fall out of… — Superman
There's a certain age where men can't share a bed: unless they gay! — Percy Shabangu

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