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Quotes About Older

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.
~ Helen Hunt
I love sleeping. Waking is more and more hateful the older I get. I say this as if I've lived too long. I'm twenty-two.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.
~ Henry Rollins
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
~ Leonard Cohen
I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
~ Maeve Binchy
I was very sheltered, very bookish and, basically, skittish about life. My parents were both older when I came along and they didn't do things like take vacations.
~ Robert Sapolsky
Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.
~ John Eldredge
With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work
~ Lars von Trier
I don't like to be noticed. The older I've got, the more reclusive I've become. I've got late-onset shyness. People are lovely. When they see me in the street, they don't ask for anything from me. They just say: 'I thought it was you, and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your books,' but I can't seem to cope with it anymore.
~ Sue Townsend
I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.
~ Ron Wyden
Tel Aviv was established in 1909 by a group of secular Jewish families; Judaism's origin story is about 2,000 years older.
~ Bari Weiss
The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really believe in keeping your canvas very basic and sort of adding the accouterments from there. I look at creating intrigue with outfits through accessories.
~ Erin Wasson
With gangs, there could be a positive outlook because it takes the older guys to come school these younger guys on the right roles.
~ Jay Rock
PLENTIETH. Franklin P. Adams's adjective of indefinite older age, as in: "He is about to celebrate his plentieth birthday.
~ Paul Dickson
The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.
~ Dave Eggers
bet, he'll be back in prison before long," said the older guard.
~ David Baldacci
in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
~ Holly Black
So, the older I got the more I started to appreciate balance and variety in my life, and once you get a taste of that returning and realize how happy it can make you it is very difficult to conceive giving that up again.
~ Wade Barrett
That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
~ Garth Brooks
When 'Yuganiki Okkadu,' the Telugu dubbed version of 'Aayirathil Oruvan,' released, I didn't like dubbing for my character. Someone much older had done it, and it didn't have the flavour.
~ Karthi
Our audience for SCTV was older than today's moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it's hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.
~ John Candy
The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.
~ Phoebe Philo
I don't like to listen to my older albums. They frighten me. I can't explain it. It's so subjective. It's so personal. I cannot listen to my first album, ever. Never, never, never.
~ Chantal Kreviazuk