"The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence."

Age, Existence, Mystery, Writers

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Age, Aging, Virginity, Wisdom, Respect

"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

Age, Class, End, Interest

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

Age, Character, Man

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

Age, Business, Dad, Cows

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Age, Experience, Errors, Light

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

Age, Guitar, Play, Poems

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

Age, Information, Philosophy, Talk

"In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself."

Bijou Phillips, American Actress

Age, People, Old, Respect

"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

Tom Hanks, American Actor

Age, People, Babies, Being

"The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age."

Margaret Walker, American Poet

Age, Evil, Fire, Today

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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

Genius

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."

People

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

Death

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

Life

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."

Life

"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."

Fool

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

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

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

"In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself."

"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

"The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age."

Explore more quotes by J. B. Priestley

"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

"Western man is schizophrenic."

"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."

"Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write."

"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."