Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virgil

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

William Holden

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Warren Buffett

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

Wayne Dyer

Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

Walter Bagehot

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

Walter Cunningham

NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.

William Blake

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

Wayne Pacelle

Especially in this Internet age, routine practices are being exposed and rightly recognized as harsh and cruel.

Walker Percy

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

Wallace Stegner

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

Samuel Richardson

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

Samuel Larsen

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

Vincent Bugliosi

Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . . , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I was recently watching Rihanna on the Billboard awards, and I was like, My God, she's incredible! And then I looked up her age [28]. She's always been talented. She's always been a star. But when you see her, she's becoming herself. It's age that happens. That's what I respond to.

Uri Geller

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Age and illness made one a dualist

Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Tyler Posey

Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

William Ames

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

William Allen White

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

Wilfrid Sheed

The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.

Wilfred Owen

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Stephen Chbosky

When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.

Steffi Graf

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Stella Benson

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

Thomas Gray

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

Thomas B. Macaulay

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

Thomas Frank

Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.

Thomas J. Stanley

Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Victoria Principal

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent

Victoria Principal

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction

Victoria Beckham

I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.