Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley Bassey

You don't get older, you get better.

Shirley Bassey

I'm not getting old. I'm getting better.

Shimon Peres

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

Shimon Peres

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shelley Duvall

I'm not afraid of aging.

Larry David

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

Marcus Aurelius

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

Peter Ustinov

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Phylicia Rashad

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

Phyllis Diller

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

Rabindranath Tagore

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

Puff Daddy

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

Emmy Rossum

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

Henry Rollins

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Helen Hayes

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

Helen Hayes

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Helen Hayes

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Gurley Brown

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Hedy Lamarr

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

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.

Morgan Freeman

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

Joseph Addison

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Joseph Addison

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Joseph Addison

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Jonathan Swift

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Kevin Smith

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

Kevin Spacey

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Lance Burton

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

Lisa Loeb

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

James Joyce

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Rollins

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.