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Age Quotes

"I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years."

"I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years."

Ed Wynn, American Entertainer

Age, Care, Day, Formula

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"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."

"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."

Raymond Chandler, American Writer

Age, Poetry, Cleverness, Literature

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"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."

"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

41

"No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12."

"No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12."

Rowan Atkinson, English Comedian

41

"The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?"

"The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?"

Fiona Apple, American Musician

Age, People, Bugs, Right

41

"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."

"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."

James Baldwin, American Educator

41

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."

Pope Paul VI, Italian Clergyman

Age, Day, Old, Years

41

"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."

"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, French Actress

Age, Change, Mother, Opportunity

41

"I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12."

"I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12."

Johnny Winter, American Musician

Age, Music, Career, Play

41

"My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day."

"My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day."

Amy Tan, American Novelist

Age, Mother, Day

41

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

John Burroughs, American Author

Age, Light, Old

41

"It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people."

"It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people."

Julie Walters, British Actress

Age, People, Old

41

"But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance."

"But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance."

Bo Jackson, American Athlete

Age, People, Performance, Appearance

41

"Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love."

"Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love."

Candace Cameron, American Actress

41

"At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role."

"At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role."

Donald Sutherland, Canadian Actor

41

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

Age, Man, Now, Romantic

41

"The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all."

"The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all."

Charles Hodge, American Theologian

Age, Church, Authority, Body

41

"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."

"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."

Gordon Sinclair, Canadian Journalist

Age, Americans, France, Germany

41

"I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh."

"I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh."

Simon Le Bon, English Musician

Age, People, Jokes, Old

41

"Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring."

"Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring."

Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer

Age, Experience

41

"With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement."

"With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement."

Todd Solondz, American Writer

Age, People, World

40

"I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing."

"I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing."

Alison Lohman, American Actress

40

"The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose."

"The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose."

Louis Leakey, British Scientist

Age, Time, Purpose, Beds

40

"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."

"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."

Vita Sackville-West, English Novelist

Age, Men, Desperation, State

40

"I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century."

"I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century."

Walter Murch, American Editor

Age, Music, Film

40

"I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences."

"I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences."

Darren Aronofsky, American Director

Age, People, Consequences, Games

40

"I started playing music at a pretty young age."

"I started playing music at a pretty young age."

Duncan Sheik, American Musician

Age, Music, Pretty

40

"A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world."

"A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world."

Maurice Chevalier, French Actor

Age, Melancholy, Old, Reward

40

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

40

"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."

"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."

Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist

Age, Hearing, Mercy, Now

40

"From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward."

"From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward."

John Pople, English Scientist

Age, Education, Business

40

"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."

"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, American Novelist

Age, Exercise, Fact, Spirit

40

"I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!"

"I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!"

Will Estes, American Actor

Age, Thought, People, Answers

40

"I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions."

"I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions."

Christopher Parker, English Actor

40

"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."

"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

Age, Time, People, Obsession

40

"In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance."

"In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance."

S. I. Hayakawa, American Politician

Age, Television

40

"I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't."

"I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't."

Moon Unit Zappa, American Musician

Age, Authority, Rules, World

40

"Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person."

"Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person."

Wilferd A. Peterson, American Author

Age, Mind, Possibilities, Waiting

40

"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."

"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."

Camille Pissarro, French Artist

Age, Sensations

40

"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."

"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author

Age, Truth, Freedom, Justice

40

"In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight."

"In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight."

Bobby Rahal, American Athlete

Age, Money, Competition, Crowds

40

"Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl."

"Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl."

Daisy Ashford, English Writer

Age, Lady, Name

40

"I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me."

"I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me."

Patty Duke, American Actress

40

"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."

"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

Age, Wisdom, Foolishness, Tomorrow

40

"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."

"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

40

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist

40

"People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me."

"People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me."

Helen Hayes, American Actress

Age, People, Rest, Retirement

40

"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

George Wald, American Scientist

Age, Science, Answers, Question

40

"I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done."

"I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done."

Joe Klein, American Journalist

Age, Journalism

40

"A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true."

"A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true."

Catherine Crowe, British Writer

40

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