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

• 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 you get older, you get a bit more serious.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Serious
  • Older

• 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

• If you asked me what caused aging, I would say free radicals and molecules, which spontaneously shift and form and cause damage in all our cells and genes. The body usually repairs and replaces the damage in these genes. But as you get older, the aging clock turns down those defenses.

  

  Michael Fossel
  • Damage
  • Older
  • Genes

• Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Like
  • Anger

• 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

• All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Worship
  • Religions

• He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Influence
  • Slaves
  • Human Soul

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

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Older
  • New ways