Quotes About Age

Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A wretched coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress

Older acquirers progress more quickly in early stages because they obtain more comprehensible input, while younger acquirers do better in the long run because of their lower affective filters.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

As Kisley et al. comment about their research: "The correlation between sensory gating and conceptual age was significant."6 By age eight the gating channels begin to take on what will be the default state in adulthood. This further solidifies, narrowing more, at the onset of puberty and generally is in place by the end of adolescence.

Because I'm too old for tragedy. I like a nice happy ending too.

We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.

At nineteen all proper adult ages are more or less the same. Thirty-seven, forty-five, sixty-two, a hundred and three. It hardly matters. They are all strange, faraway places you can't believe you'll ever visit.

When we lose our spiritual child then that is when we have grown old.

The good thing about being old is not being young.

How many times do you get to be 35? Eleven

I had affairs with a few girls of my own age, and they taught me that no girl, however intelligent and war-hearted, can possibly know or feel half as much at twenty as she will at thirty-five.

There are four crucial factors to consider: 1. The resources available to work with. 2. The size of the property. 3. The age of the property. 4. Your holding period.

I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

How well we manage the grave dilemmas confronting us now and in the future may depend on how well we grasp the buried truths of our past." (The Age of Acquiescence, pg 13)

We must learn to love ourselves less and the earth more. This will not be an easy task for we live in the age of nonsense. Bombarded with thousands of messages each day that proclaim how to be loved instead of how to be loving, we have learned to love objects instead of processes.

In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you're addicted to opium!

At the age of twenty, I failed to grasp the difference between guilt, which can almost always be atoned for, and grief, which can only be borne.

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller

The first law of the multitude is conformity. Civilization is the mechanism of controlling and maintaining that multitude. The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.

The closest held secret is the one that never sours with age.

I was 50 when I had my first show, so I was never on television with a short skirt or decollete; I never tried to look or be younger.

I don't like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear short skirts - but I think at 78, one's got to act one's age.