Quotes About Age

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Not to succeed in one thing is to fail in all.' Far more frightening than any poltergeist is the spectre of loneliness in old age.

So now we are young still but a better sort of young.

There's this piece of contemporary mythology that the forties are the best time of your life. A load of cock, so far as I'm concerned.

You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that changes its Shape almost in every Man: there is no Folly that may not have a thousand Reasons produc'd to advance it into the Class of Wisdom. Reason itself is a Mist.

DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc and the Thunder was a Noise from a Drum or a Pan. VANNBRUGGHE. (Aside) What a Child is this! (To Dyer) These are only our Devices, and are like the Paint of our Painted Age. DYER. But in Meditation the Sunne is a vast and glorious Body, and Thunder is the most forcible and terrible Phaenomenon: it is not to be mocked, for the highest Passion is Terrour.

It was a costume fit for an age which had begun by proudly proclaiming its lack of regimentation and ended railing at its own disarray.

You are as old as the woman you are feeling.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

It is often said that we live in a youth culture. It's a lie. We live in an old culture. We idolize youth because we are old. We are tired and bored. Ancient cultures respected the old because those cultures were young. They were not bored.

You couldn't get to a certain age without attracting a lot of clutter. But why did it always have to get in the way? Why couldn't you just shrug it off and get on with life? Why was misery so easy to embrace and joy so bloody elusive?

Being seventy-six has a few advantages, one of them being that a premature demise is no longer possible.

Bob, you know something . . ." Luckman said at last. "I used to be the same age as everyone else." "I think so was I," Arctor said. "I don't know what did it." "Sure, Luckman," Arctor said, "you know what did it to all of us." "Well, let's not talk about it." He continued inhaling noisily, his long face sallow in the dim midday light.

The King who is more successful in...in what? Perhaps in overthrowing the tyrannical reign of the king of tears, replacing that sad and bitter king with his own legitimate reign of happiness: the end of the Black Iron Prison and the beginning of the age of the Garden of Palm Trees in the warm sun of Arabia (Felix also refers to the fertile portion of Arabia.)

The man contains—not the boy—but earlier men

You're an unusual person, she said. Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so—so prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should become—broadened in his outlook?

the massively built old man was tired, despite his customary show of energy. I guess when you get up into that bracket, Herbert decided, you have to act in a certain way; you have to appear more than a human with merely ordinary failings.