Quotes About Age

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

People get really attached to it: many of our players have played for four to five years, and our developers range in age from eight to 80. Some of the top developers are 18 or 20, and we have kids in high-school who are making two, three or four thousand dollars a month.

Yeah, I could get an internet page and maybe get a thousand downloads of new songs but it's a lot of work. I'm 57 now, I really feel like I've got the T-shirt. I just like performing. It's instant. I go off, I do the show, it's over. I like that.

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirties are a specially dangerous time for women. They have outlived the shyness and restraints of girlhood, and not attained to the caution and discretion of middle age. They are reckless, and consciously or unconsciously on the lookout for adventure. They see ahead of them the end of youth, and that quickens their pace.

Once more the legend flourished that the number of years lived constitutes some kind of temperamental bond, so that people of the same age are many minds with but a single thought, bearing one to another a close resemblance. The young were commented on as if they were some new and just discovered species of animal life, with special qualities and habits which repaid investigation.

When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you—not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.

In two more weeks, you'll have to stop calling me that, *Jack*.' 'In two more weeks, I'll still be too old for you.' I stared at him, stunned that he'd actually *said* it.

By 1918 Nadya's letters hint that she has fallen in love with Stalin. Svetlana explains that Nadya "had only begun to grow when the Revolution broke out, whereas he [Stalin] was already a man nearly forty, an age of hardened scepticism and cold calculation and all the other qualities important in a politician.

How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in.

a thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet.

He was a man of fifty-five or so wearing an open-necked white shirt from which his head jutted like a weathered statue.

A woman of about sixty answered the door. She had blue-white hair and a look on her face you don't see too often any more, the look of a woman who hasn't been disappointed: 'Yes

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both senseless and impossible. It would be senseless, because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such. It is simply the cosmology of a pre-scientific age.

On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Joss and I felt guilty; we were still at the age when we thought being greedy was a childish fault and this gave our guilt a tinge of hopelessness because, up to then, we had believed that as we grew older our faults would disappear, and none of them did.

Live your life in the now, because you get to a certain age and you realize, "Wow, that was fast.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

I sat in a teashop, tasted my teeth on an old bun, and washed it down with milky tea. The bun had been around for some time, but so had I, so we were quits. At the age of forty I could digest almost anything.

Grandfather was about sixty, a lean active man who still rode his bicycle at great speed.

He called me 'Uncle', although I was only some fifteen or sixteen years older than him. Call a tiger 'Uncle', and he won't harm you; or so the forest-dwellers say. Not quite how it works out with people approaching middle age. Being addressed as 'Uncle' didn't make me very fond of Sunil.