Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Ernst

I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

Maureen O'Hara

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

Matthew Sweet

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

Matthew Sweet

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

Matthew Macfadyen

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

Michael Caine

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Mason Cooley

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Mason Cooley

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Mason Cooley

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Mason Cooley

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Mary Antin

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

Michel Foucault

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Marie Dressler

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Theodor Adorno

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Thayer David

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

Terry Pratchett

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Margaret Sanger

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

Margaret Mitchell

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Margaret Mitchell

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Margaret Mead

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Margaret Mead

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Margaret Fuller

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Kin Hubbard

I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do.

Kin Hubbard

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

Kin Hubbard

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

Michael Bloomberg

What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

Michelangelo

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Bill Ward

I guess this feels like four Birthdays and four Christmases, ... First, we're going to see family and have dinner. I want to see everybody again-- just kind of see who grew up and who changed.

Frank Robinson

I guess they decided to give me a birthday present.

David Gilmour

I had a great party for my 50th birthday, and I'm having a nice little one this time. But it's sad how many people aren't going to be there, because they've died in the intervening years. There's been a lot of carnage around me, and I'm sort of looking at that list.

Annie Parisse

'Clybourne Park' was my first job after the birth of my son, who was 11 weeks old when we started rehearsals. And while that was truly harder than anything I've ever done, I was grateful every day to be going to work on such an incredible play, with such a generous, intelligent, supportive group of people.