Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• My mates who are younger than me are all slagging me for it - saying I am so much older and my crow's feet are showing.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Saying
  • Much
  • Older

• When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won’t die any quicker, but you’ll be less than the dirt on our boots. You’ll still be dust, but you’ll have wasted your short time in the light.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Courage
  • Matters
  • Older

• It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Clothes
  • Naked

• I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Poetry

• I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Friends
  • Me
  • New York

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

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Older
  • New ways