“In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.”
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“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.”
“Age, like distance lends a double charm.”
“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”
“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”
“With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.”
“I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.”
“Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.”
“I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.”
“At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.”
“We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.”
“Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.”
“After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.”
“Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.”
“Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.”
“Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.”
“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
“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.”
“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.”
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
“Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”