God bless… God damn. — James Thurber
Wisdom comes with winters — Oscar Wilde
Age for me is just a number. — Haile Gebrselassie
I’ve never worried about age. — Jeanne Moreau
In a dream you are never eighty. — Anne Sexton
I’ve gotten crankier in my old age. — Shirley MacLaine
Does age matter? Time doesn’t matter. — Sandra Bullock
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does. — Tim Ferriss
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. — Paulo Coelho
Love has no age, no limit; and no death. — John Galsworthy
We tried not to age, but time had its rage. — Patti Smith
I feel more mature than most people my age. — Leighton Meester
The golden age is before us, not behind us. — William Shakespeare
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. — Pope Paul VI
I grew up on the golden age of children’s TV. — Edward Norton
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. — Plautus
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. — Alberto Giacometti
Love has no age as it is always renewing itself. — Blaise Pascal
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise. — William Shakespeare
To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares? — Jeanne Moreau
Don’t worry about middle age: you’ll outgrow it. — Laurence J. Peter
Some people reach the age of sixty before others. — Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13. — Richard Dawkins
I think love can happen at any age… it has no age. — Shahrukh Khan
I feel like women are asked their age more than men. — Kristen Wiig
I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. — Nina Totenberg
I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing. — Rupert Everett
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. — Charles Simmons
That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age. — Propertius
There probably aren’t a lot of actors my age who tap dance. — Christopher Walken
If you’re extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows. — Jeanne Moreau
Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you’re a cheese — Luis Bunuel
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. — George Sand
Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I’m actually overweight. — Lindsay Lohan
I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five. — Roger Moore
Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live. — David Oliver Relin
It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom. — Philip Moeller
I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it. — John Mayer
It’s hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I’m not discouraged. — Jane Fonda
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. — Pablo Picasso
We’ve had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin’ about age. — Karl Pilkington
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal. — Benjamin Franklin
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. — D. H. Lawrence
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. — Jacqueline Bisset
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment. — Francis Bacon
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. — Robert Browning
Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion. — Alex Ferguson
Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it. — Clifford D. Simak
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. — Stephen Fry
Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly. — John Mayer
I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on? — George Michael
At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford! — Carlos Ghosn
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. — John Updike
I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ’s. — George Carlin
My breasts are so low, now I can have a mammogram and a pedicure at the same time. — Joan Rivers
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own. — C. E. M. Joad
I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it. — Eva Gabor
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. — Ellen Glasgow
Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15. — Hedy Lamarr
I’ve been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. — Maeve Binchy
“”…arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable.”” — Luther L. Bohanon
I shall grow old, but never lose life’s zest, because the road’s last turn will be the best. — Henry Van Dyke
The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don’t even care about my career anymore. — Ron Perlman
I can’t understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. — George Burns
Age is the first limitation on roles that I’ve ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago. — Jack Nicholson
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you. — Bennett Cerf
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
I can’t hit on women in public any more. I didn’t decide this; it just doesn’t feel right at my age. — Jack Nicholson
And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. — Elton John
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12. — Xavier Becerra
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don’t even know about, which is really sad. — Amber Tamblyn
The first of America’s 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you’re growing old. — Craig Wilson
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam. — Trey Anastasio
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. — Agatha Christie
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch. — Marshall McLuhan
I don’t know how you feel about old age… but in my case I didn’t even see it coming. It hit me from the rear. — Phyllis Diller
It’s the golden age of French cinema again but it’s because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law. — Harvey Weinstein
Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation’s slow relentless handiwork. — D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. — Homer
Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does. — Herbert M. Shelton
“”We can reveal that John’s 85
That’s a well known fact
Telling Kathy’s age would be a breach
Of the Official Secrets Act”” — John Walter Bratton
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age. — Lisa See
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may. — Jon Stewart
Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough. — Shawn Johnson
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. — Christopher Lasch
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack. — Samuel Johnson
…HH Beard has perfected …3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better….. in 1942 and onwards. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons. — Candace Bushnell
Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it’s more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. — Jonathan Sacks
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. — Russell Baker
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. — George Eliot
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too. — Liv Tyler
I’ll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age. — Salma Hayek
When I was your age, we didn’t have the Internet in our pants. We didn’t even have the Internet not in our pants. That’s how bad it was. — Dick Costolo
The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy. — Erica Bauermeister
Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous. — Nicole Kidman
I don’t really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world. — Rory McIlroy
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death. — William Shakespeare
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. — Jessica Savitch
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what ‘pull my finger’ meant the hard way. — Danica McKellar
There’s a focus that hasn’t been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s. — Graham Coxon
I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life. — Lisa Kleypas
Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing – breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages. — Darcy O’Brien
If for no other reason than it’s just fun to watch people age, and it’s fun to watch what happened to ’80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now. — Alex Borstein
I’m not skinny for the wrong reasons. It’s not because I’m bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I’m actually overweight. — Lindsay Lohan
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along. — Bruce Springsteen
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look. — Seymour Hicks
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. — Baltasar Gracian
It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media. — Bill Mumy
I’d done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own. — Mick Jagger
A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn’t always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I’m interested in now, particularly at my age. — Annie Lennox
Everyone has a bowling story. I love bowling because you can do it at age 2 – my son started when he learned to walk – or you can bowl at 102. It’s great for families. — Diandra Asbaty
You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there’s very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they’re the same 30 years later. — Alec Baldwin
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. — Florida Scott-Maxwell
I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That’s really a fear of mine. — June Diane Raphael
From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else. — Diana Nyad
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. — Helena Bonham Carter
Now I’m more behaved, I think it’s age, you get older, more responsible, more quiet. But if I would want to dye my hair, for example red or blue, be sure that I’ll dye it! — Neymar
The Spain of today looks at the Second Republic with great appreciation and above all with satisfaction and pride for what we have been able to do in this constitutional age. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. — John Milton
The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of ‘witness’ that is coming, hour of the ‘marturioa’, very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised. — Henri de Lubac
She’d been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well. — Dean Koontz
I’m very accepting with my age. It’s like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin. — Zoe Saldana
I put my friends and family first. I’m really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity. — Natasha Calis
When I first met my agent, I said, “”If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.”” — Tia Carrere
It’s not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it’s been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. — Cate Blanchett
No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual. — Christopher Walken
At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did. — Puff Daddy
“”Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,–
Too credulous lover
Of blest and unblest?
Say, when in lapsed ages
Thee knew I of old?
Or what was the service
For which I was sold?”” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done…but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages. — Theodore Roosevelt
It begins and ends with money. It’s absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It’s obscene — Kathleen Turner
It’s getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen. — Julie Walters
There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge. — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way. — Bob Dylan
Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it. — J. Michael Straczynski
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship. — Don Tapscott
But, on another level it’s really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club. — Will Estes
To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense… you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired. — Sam Worthington
By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn’t a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual. — Janet Jackson
At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. — Morgan Freeman
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. — Soren Kierkegaard
I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don’t think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia. — Bailee Madison
You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry – angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about – love… betrayal… and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life. — John Osborne
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It’s a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack. — Chris Martin
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying. — Geraldine Brooks
Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die. — Michael Scott
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I’ve liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. — Tom Stoppard
We sometimes get lost in a bubble… when you get to a certain age you’re always thinking about the old days and how it wasn’t like that then. Well, yeah, that’s great and it’s very nostalgic and all that, but actually the world has moved on. — Ray Winstone
I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out – all elbows and knees, couldn’t get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I’m a big ol’ strapping thing, so I just accept it. — Jeannette Walls
The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast. — Emma Lazarus
Man’s highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, ‘Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last. — Sophocles
I don’t worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we’re all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don’t know. We just have to accept it. — Ingrid Bergman
We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind. — Ben Klassen
But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete.”” (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech) — John F. Kennedy
Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%. — Kristi Funk
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. — Simon Raven
There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life – in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers – and it is this: they took “”kindness”” for “”weakness.”” — Sylvester Stallone
I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands. — Francois Fenelon
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. — Julie Burchill
I can sleep a whole day. If no one woke me up, I would sleep for 24 hours. I think it’s a combination of my age and my appreciation for sleep. Sleep is so wonderful. Sometimes you can oversleep and feel like you’ve waster your time, but I think it’s one of the bestways to spend your time. — Natalie Portman
I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield’s “”Tubular Bells”” [Virgin Records’ first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could’ve possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again. — Richard Branson
Age simply doesn’t enter into it! The older the friend, the more he is valued, particularly when he shows so visibly the characteristics that we all look for in friends. You have only to look at a genuine teddy’s face to see at once the loyalty, common sense, and above all, dependability behind it. — Peter Bull
Most of today’s film actresses are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line and whose uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with identical noses, breasts, teeth, eyelashes, and hair. — Helen Lawrenson
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. — Ron Perlman
The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty. — William Mountford
I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. — David Bowie
One of the great things about this cast is that we’ve been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that’s kind of it. — Alison Pill
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of all ages, makes it the height of folly to intrust any set of men with power which is not under every possible control; perpetual strides are made after more as long as there is any part withheld. — Alexander Hamilton
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I’d discovered Shakespeare – ‘hey, there’s a new guy in town, don’t know if anyone’s read him.’ I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one. — Chiwetel Ejiofor
Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone’s a journalist today, essentially. Every pedestrian on the street has the potential of capturing a big story on their mobile device and then selling it and making a lot of money. — Megan Fox
I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there’s nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it’s traumatic. It wasn’t so bad for me, but there’s a woman I know who’s still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older. — Sofia Coppola
I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens. — Justin Timberlake
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery. — Mark Twain
The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it. — Damian Barr
Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can’t but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity…. Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity. — Eric Felten
I had been living the life that society tends to dictate for women of a certain age. You marry the person who asks you, even though he may or may not be the best one for you. Around the time that I got divorced, I had an epiphany that there is no blue ribbon or gold medal for living someone else’s life, for fulfilling someone else’s dreams. It’s doesn’t make you happy. You just end up with a life that’s not yours. — Gabrielle Union
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes. — Thomas Jefferson
It is a great thing to be at your age… You are at a very specific time of age … an age where you can follow all your dreams. But also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. When you start something when you’re young, you should not decide ‘this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.’ You have the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration. — Christian Louboutin
If you’re in music, you’re in music, and if you’re in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That’s what it’s about, isn’t it? At least, that’s what I always thought it was about, anyway. I don’t think I could bear years and years off. Perhaps in me older, older age, maybe I will, for physical reasons. But to me you’ve always got to keep proving yourself. I never want to just sit on me laurels. You have to keep forging, to prove yourself to yourself. I always think, every time I start a record, this could be the best thing I’ve ever done. — Paul Weller
Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don’t shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity. — Lorenzo Carcaterra
