Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Surprisingly, many of our clients who are in their 50s are already planning ahead and incorporating design elements to help in the aging process.

My own feeling is, these are aging franchises,

Katsuya Okada

Japan faces problems of decreasing population, an aging society and increasing national debts. Mr. Koizumi sounds as if life will be all rosy if the postal service is privatized, but no one takes what he says seriously.

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

Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress' lips, and murders. Actors come from all over the world to find their sliver of fame on the street of L.A. Many stars rise, but many more fall.

The only thing that retards aging is calorie restriction. As genetic studies go forward, we'll find out why.

The only thing that retards aging is calorie restriction, ... As genetic studies go forward, we'll find out why.

The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.

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.

Deepak Chopra

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

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.

Ambrose Bierce

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

We're seeing the kind of hearing loss in younger people typically found in aging adults. Unfortunately, the ear buds preferred by music listeners are even more likely to cause hearing loss than the muff-type earphones that were associated with the older devices.

We're seeing the kind of hearing loss in younger people that's typically found in aging adults.

Paul Hewitt

We're just getting a little older. The calendar is aging them and I'm aging them.

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.

Loyalty should be with customers and not an aging business model, ... The customer is always right.

Atul Gawande

We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us

Deepak Chopra

Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined.

Older women are like aging strudels-the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

Simply, we have a lot of aging equipment. It's not just the machines in the classroom but the equipment in the (network server) closets.

Most vehicles gradually increase their emissions, but with aging vehicles, there are some catastrophic failures, such as holes in catalytic converters.

Most of what people think is caused by aging is not caused by aging. It's caused by disuse. And you can get a lot of it back.

Now our aging landscape has a new look and the school is humming with excitement.