Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Jay Olshansky

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

Alexandra Robbins

The aging aren't only the old; the aging are all of us.

Fred Armisen

like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy.

Richard Lamm

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.

Sharon Stone

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

We'd need proof of financial status, but making sure they have transportation is such a priority for the Council on Aging board of directors that this isn't going to be a problem.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

Gloria Steinem

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

This study has demolished the misconception about old age, ... The possibility of experiencing positive, vital aging lasting into our tenth decade of life is one of the new realities of the 21 st century.

Elizabeth Blackburn

This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today.

I think we're all in the same ballpark; we all have aging systems. It's a big financial burden.

Geddy Lee

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.

When we think of aging of the face, ... we typically just think that the soft tissue -- the skin and the fat -- deteriorates and becomes looser or bigger and we typically just lift everything back up and take out some skin to tighten it back up.

Dave Obey

This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.

Christie Brinkley

When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.

Dan Buettner

The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

Richard Lerner

While scientists have believed that aging is a disease in which cells stop dividing, this study suggests that aging is really a disease of quality control. In this case, the manufactured product is a new cell. As we get older, altered gene expression results in cells with diminished function.

Jim Murphy

We've met with the University of Arizona and Raytheon and they're very supportive of what we're doing. They recognize that the population is aging and, if you look at the projections, there simply won't be enough workers for the jobs we'll have. So, it makes sense to turn to the age-50-plus workforce.

We are in the midst of a rapidly aging population.

Plum Island is an aging laboratory and the department is looking at all the options for establishing the new laboratory. That option includes expanding the current lab at Plum Island.

One of the biggest things about the boomers is that they're the first group in history that has grown up with many positive models for aging in their own family, ... They're the first group that could really see the full potential of aging.

We have an aging workforce, so these touches are nice.

We have wasted an insane amount of money. Health care is being starved to keep the postal system, the roads and bridges around. In a country with a shrinking, aging population, this system is going to lower living standards.

We know people on calorie restriction will lose weight. But this study isn't a weight-loss study. We're hoping to learn more about whether calorie restriction can alter the aging process.

We'll have a number of people who are familiar with aging cattle by their dentition look at this animal and see if they concur with the original veterinarian.

My own feeling is, these are aging franchises,

Annabelle Selldorf

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

Cynthia Kenyon

Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

Dave Matthews

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

Deepak Chopra

Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.

Ambrose Bierce

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Andrew Niccol

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

Billy Connolly

Don't die until you're dead.