Quotes about age
age acceleration exhilarating
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. Pico Iyer
age attention distraction
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
age theater anachronism
This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. Minnie Maddern Fiske
age wish lessons
I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life. Peace Pilgrim
agency over-you important
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket. Peter Thiel
age fantasy
Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death. Terry Pratchett
age illusion compare
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. Terence McKenna
age world looks
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
age belief has-beens
All the great ages have been ages of belief.
age reform opinion
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
age condemnation loud
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
age retiring show-business
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit. Shirley Bassey
age want directors
I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age. Shiri Appleby
age answers might
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty. Leslie Jamison
age important needs
I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.' Laura Prepon
age lapses literature
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value Marcus Aurelius
age pay dollars
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. Sharon Gless
age may today
If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.
age principles philosopher
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. Joshua Foer
age television golden
It's the digital era. What makes it exciting is that it's both the Golden Age of television and the Wild West of television. Something is happening now that's unprecedented, and we know that we're a part of it. What could be more exciting or better than that? You can't lose because you're on the pony and you're staking the claim. Kate Mulgrew
age veils information
In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble. Lawrence Summers
age mediocrity
We live in an age of mediocrity. Lauren Bacall
age doe heroic
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. Lascelles Abercrombie
age hollywood sexist
Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess. Kyra Sedgwick
agency might matter
No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen. John Dalton
age breakfast ruins
I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life. Lisa Kleypas
age borders internet
I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me. Lisa Gardner
age stills
I always figured I'd still be playing at this age. Lionel Hampton
age sincerity mass
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. Lionel Barrymore
age want mellow
if you don't want to get old, don't mellow. Linda Ellerbee
age clique form
Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age. Leslie Morgan Steiner
age orthodoxy rebellion
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left Peter Kreeft
age world politician
This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place. Peter F. Hamilton