Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry Ford

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Genevieve Gorder

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

James M. Barrie

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Emma Thompson

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Heidi Klum

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

John Irving

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

John Heywood

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

Jonathan Hickman

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.

Jim Gilmore

The company could offer a birthday venue at its distribution center by designing a room with a glass wall looking out to the warehouse.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Michelle Malkin

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Michael Weatherly

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

Michael Phelps

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Sienna Miller

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

Sienna Miller

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

Sienna Miller

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

John Dewey

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

Joan Rivers

Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.

Franka Potente

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Lois Wyse

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

Madeleine L'Engle

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

John F. Kennedy

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.