Awake Quote by Michael Dirda

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

— Mike Wallace

Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can…

— Daniel Clowes

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.

— Louise Andrews Kent

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

— Helen Hayes

I wake up in the morning and I still have a passion for what I do, and I'll be doing it when I'm 105,…

— Jackie Collins

I got caught up in 35 years of Saturday nights. Every night was like party night to me. As a young man, you can…

— Steve Lukather

I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.

— Carnie Wilson

Those days where all you feel like doing is laying in bed.

— Anonymous

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

— Anne Stevenson