Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Lennox

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Annie Lennox

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Annie Dillard

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

D. H. Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

D. H. Lawrence

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Clifton Fadiman

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Clint Eastwood

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Daniel Day-Lewis

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

David Bailey

I left school on my 15th birthday.

Doris Lessing

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Colin Powell

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Daniel Craig

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

E. B. White

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Douglas Coupland

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Douglas Coupland

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Andre Gide

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Ang Lee

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.

Amanda Seyfried

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

Amanda Seyfried

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

Chuck Palahniuk

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Christopher Walken

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

Christopher Walken

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

Christopher Morley

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Annette Funicello

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Anna Magnani

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Andre Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Ambrose Bierce

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Anne Lamott

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Anne Lamott

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

Amy Weber

I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.

Aeschylus

By Time and Age full many things are taught.