Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Hector Hugh Munro

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• Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Actually
  • Older

• I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Body

• I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Expect

• When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Brother
  • Older
  • Loose

• As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Jazz
  • Older
  • My Love

• I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Time
  • Music
  • Energy

• Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Team
  • Design
  • Daughter

• Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

  

  Doris Day
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Food
  • Poetry
  • Happiness

• I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Experience
  • Yourself
  • Older

• When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Understand
  • Older

• I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music.

  

  Daniel Quine Auerbach The Arcs
  • Brain
  • Changes
  • Older

• Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Woman
  • Older
  • Costume

• As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Record
  • Older
  • Not Afraid

• Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Older

• I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.

  

  Scott Porter
  • Men
  • Saying
  • Actresses

• The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Family
  • Older
  • Jewish

• We turn not older with years but newer every day.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Years
  • Turn
  • Older

• A great benefit to getting older is that you learn to stop looking for other people's approval.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Learn
  • Looking
  • Getting

• The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.

  

  Ian Matthias Bavitz
  • Cool
  • Weird
  • Older

• I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Night

• Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Hearts
  • Tyranny
  • Masculinity

• Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against their neighbours, blood red, royal blue, gypsy yellow, grass green. The birds were crammed along perches. Macaws hung upside down here and there, batting their white eyes, and small green parrots flittered above our heads in drifts. A hot of cockatoos looked down from on high over the shrill madness, high crested, creamy breasted. The screeching was like laughter in hell.

  

  Carol Birch
  • Lobby
  • Menagerie
  • Mr. Jamrach

• It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Older
  • New ways