Best 7157 quotes in «age quotes» category

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.

Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.

Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor. Picard

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

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.

Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.

Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for charitable projects has become 'a racket', and the longer they remain in the test-tube stage of development, the longer patronage and job payrollers remain in their soft berths.

Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.

Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

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.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.

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

Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.

Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.