“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
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“Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.”
“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'”
“I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.”
“I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.”
“Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.”
“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.”
“I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.”
“The 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.”
“The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.”
“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.”
“By Time and Age full many things are taught.”
“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.”
“Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.”
“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”
“In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.”
“I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.”
“Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.”
“Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”
“Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.”
“I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.”
“One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.”
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”