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Vivien Leigh on age
Author: Vivien LeighEnglish people don’t have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. – Vivien Leigh
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Gustave Flaubert on age
Author: Gustave FlaubertOh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. – Gustave Flaubert
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Randall Jarrell on age
Author: Randall JarrellThe people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarrell
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Christopher Hitchens on age
Author: Christopher Hitchens‘Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age’ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. – Christopher Hitchens
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Desiderius Erasmus on age
Author: Desiderius ErasmusEveryone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? – Desiderius Erasmus
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Alanis Morissette on age
Author: Alanis MorissetteI was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet. – Alanis Morissette
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Liz Carpenter on age
Author: Liz CarpenterA major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. – Liz Carpenter
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King Abdullah II on age
Author: King Abdullah IIToday more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly? – King Abdullah II
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Theodor Adorno on age
Author: Theodor AdornoIn the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. – Theodor Adorno
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on age
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteOne keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Doug Coupland on age
Author: Doug CouplandEverybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. – Doug Coupland
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David Herbert Lawrence on age
Author: David Herbert LawrenceOurs is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. – David Herbert Lawrence
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David Bowie on age
Author: David BowieI’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…
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Richard M. Nixon on age
Author: Richard M. NixonIn the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. – Richard M. Nixon
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau on age
Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauO 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
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Isabel Allende on age
Author: Isabel AllendeI was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. – Isabel Allende
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Rita Rudner on age
Author: Rita RudnerMy husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head. – Rita Rudner
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Paul Cezanne on age
Author: Paul CezanneI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. – Paul Cezanne
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E. B. White on age
Author: E. B. WhiteThe terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. – E. B. White
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William Feather on age
Author: William FeatherWomen lie about their age men lie about their income. – William Feather
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Tom Stoppard on age
Author: Tom StoppardFrom 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
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Jonathan Swift on age
Author: Jonathan SwiftInvention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. – Jonathan Swift
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John Donne on age
Author: John DonneGod employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. – John Donne
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Martha Gellhorn on age
Author: Martha GellhornWhy do people talk of the horrors of old age? It’s great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I’m not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven’t done what they wanted with their lives. – Martha Gellhorn