Quotes About Experience

I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

Chinese people age overnight.

I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.

I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.