Age Quotes
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Katharine Hepburn
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I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a long time.
Wade Guyton
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Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
J. G. Ballard
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Age is just a number, i won't change. i'll be immature for the rest of my life.
Jung Dae-hyun B.A.P
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Each episode follows an unbelievably spoiled rich and tiny sod as they prepare to throw a despicably opulent coming of age party for themselves and their squealing shitcake friends.
Charlie Brooker
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
Eavan Boland
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For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
Dawn French
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Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes in it, it's not as formidable; it's not as scary, and ultimately, it becomes another truth.
Billy Crystal
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I've always felt like an outcast. My aesthetic is very high-end, but I still get classified as streetwear. There's really no other reason for than other than my age, the way I look, and where I'm from.
Kerby Jean-Raymond
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My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
Rachel Roy
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I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
Paloma Faith
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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
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Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
Charles Frazier
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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
Yasunari Kawabata
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For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!
Akshay Kumar
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When I was in the YA age range myself, I didn't feel like there were a lot of books for me.
Angie Thomas
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
Baz Luhrmann
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When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.
Philippe Petit
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I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
Mario Andretti
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A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.
Chilon of Sparta
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Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
Benjamin Cardozo
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I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'
Olivia Hussey
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Alexander Pope
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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
Charles Kuralt