Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iain Duncan Smith

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

Iain Duncan Smith

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

Gore Vidal

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Gore Vidal

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Harvey Weinstein

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

Harold Pinter

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Jack White

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

Jeanne Moreau

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Jeanne Moreau

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Jeanne Moreau

I've never worried about age.

Jeanne Moreau

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Jim Croce

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

Jim Cramer

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

Jessica Savitch

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

Jenny McCarthy

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

Haile Gebrselassie

Age for me is just a number.

He played at the highest level and he taught me the way the game was supposed to be played. The game was never forced on me. But I wanted to be just like Dad. Guys from the Giants were always around. Phil Simms lived close by. He was over the house a lot and I used to always go to his son Chris' birthday parties. I used to go to the all games but I don't remember them. I was only 3 when he retired.

Her 10th birthday was last May, but she wanted to wait to have the party until I could be there, ... We're going to have it at the swimming pool at my house.

Isla Fisher

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

Irvin S. Cobb

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Gloria Stuart

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

J. R. R. Tolkien

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

Elton John

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Francis Schaeffer

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Ian Dury

All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

Ian Fleming

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

H. L. Mencken

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Gene Fowler

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.