Age Quotes
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In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether 'The Age of Innocence' or the latest by Colm Toibin.
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I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for her nurturing and guiding my artistic talents at a young age, I don't think I'd be a professional actress and performer today.
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When it comes to sex, at my age I like threesomes. In case one of us dies.
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My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
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I don't have any issues with my age.
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We're in this incredible age where new brands are making people's lives easier, more convenient, more personalized.
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The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.
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Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.
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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
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I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
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No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.
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Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
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Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character.
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Age carries all things away, even the mind.
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I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.
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I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.
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I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.
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In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
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I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
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Gay people, certainly gay people of my generation, at least of a certain echelon - middle-class Americans - have binocular vision. We all are raised by straight people and grow up with straight people and in straight families, but we all have this totally other way of looking at things. Increasingly as I get deeper into middle age, that is why I resist plunking for any one camp. Because I have this delicious sort of experience of being able to see things in two ways.
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Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
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Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
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I was at that age…I was interested in girls so (being in a band) made it better!
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I think it's strange when people my age and younger get surgery. Somebody's got to play old people.
