Lewis Mumford Quotes
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
Lewis Mumford
Quotes to Explore
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
Ian McShane
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
Natalie Zea
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I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.
Kara Swisher
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
Laura Marling
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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
Patrick deWitt
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
Harrison Ford
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
Magnus Scheving
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
Narciso Rodriguez
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
Lady Gaga
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
Olivier Theyskens
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
Lara Pulver
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
Karen Hesse
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Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
Ted Dekker
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My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.
Camille Paglia
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My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.
Kate Walsh
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Love has no age.
Gail Porter
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Even though Kurt died in the most horrific way possible, there is this mythology and romanticism that surrounds him, because he's 27 forever. The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long. Kurt has gotten to icon status because he will never age. He will always be that relevant in that time and always be beautiful.
Frances Bean Cobain
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A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that 'all curriculum areas will be the same.' In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.
John Roger Stephens
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I still see Prince George as my nephew, and I just want to be the best uncle possible.
James William Middleton
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A dark, fantastic adventure set in an alternate 1900s Asia, 'Monstress' is buried deep in the supernatural. It's a story I've wanted to tell for a long time - it just took me awhile to put all the pieces together.
Marjorie Liu
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The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
Lewis Mumford
