Quotes about age
age botox pox
Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria. Victor Davis Hanson
age different alive
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
age pickles cynicism
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker! Gordon B. Hinckley
agents contracts managers
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts. Gerard Butler
age speed curse
speed is the curse of the age. Georgette Heyer
agency generations citizens
The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies. Herbert Spencer
age modern infancy
A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age. Henry David Thoreau
age youth lost
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
age fascinated
I was fascinated by movies from age 12. Jean Paul Gaultier
agency roles detectives
When I auditioned with Anthony Minghella (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), I loved the audition process, although I hated him for it. Because he had me audition six times for that role. Maybe three hours each. He wanted to see how quickly I could vary. Jill Scott
age trying outcomes
At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that. Jennifer Carpenter
age three performing
I was performing from the age of three. Jennifer Ellison
agency traffic heavy
Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person. Jeff Wall
age aging jerk
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. Jean Rhys
age firsts difficult
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage. Jim Bishop
age next groups
Where are the Robert Redfords and Paul Newmans of my age group? I love James Franco, but where's the next James Franco? Where are the hunks who can act? Jennifer Lawrence
age movement influential
[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Jeffrey Rosen
age noon tvs
Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age Jackson Browne
age stones doe
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. Christopher Hitchens
age youth clarity
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. Friedrich Nietzsche
age hours decline
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy. Franz Grillparzer
age information fluency
Age is information failure. The body loses fluency. Jeanette Winterson
age band energy
I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up. Jim Capaldi
age politics lord
God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong. Jethro Tull
agency choices
Agency presupposes choice. Jerome Bruner
age best-things
The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Jen Lancaster
agents want
I tell my agent that I want to read everything. Jena Malone
age coal pouring
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals. Jeff Buckley
age reason age-of-reason
This then is the age of reason. Jean-Paul Sartre
age seventies
Oh, to be seventy again! Georges Clemenceau
agendas be-good
The liberal agenda: Being good to liberals George Will
agency government law
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
age trying failing
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. George Saunders