"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."

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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

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"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

"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

"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

"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll."

Ben Harper, American Musician

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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Metaphor is embodied in language."

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"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."

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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."

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"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."

Knowledge

"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"

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"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."

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"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

"I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll."

"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Explore more quotes by Dennis Potter

"Metaphor is embodied in language."

"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."

"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."

"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."

"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"

"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."

"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there."

"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."

"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."