Quotes About Perspective

At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

I think that age is a number. Right now I feel good and I'm playing well, so I think that 36 is good.

The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.