c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together.
— Charles J. Shields
What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.
— Donald Johanson
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
— James Heckman
We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.
— Annalee Newitz
Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese.
— Amy Tan
Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.
— Phil Lord
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
— Ogden Nash
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
— Henry Miller
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
— H. L. Mencken
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
— Pierre de Coubertin
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
— Elizabeth Taylor
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. 
— William Wordsworth
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
— Andre Maurois
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
— Fred Allen
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
— Naomi Wolf
My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.
— Curtis LeMay
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
— Wim Wenders
The golden age has not passed it lies in the future. 
— Paul Signac
We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.
— Daniel Yergin
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
— Carolyn Wells
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
— William Shakespeare
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
— Hesiod
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
— Lytton Strachey
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
— Charlotte Bronte
There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.
— Stella McCartney
There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
— Charlie Kaufman
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
— Sherman Alexie
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
I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.
— William J. Clinton
I don't care about age very much.
— Chinua Achebe
Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.
— Janeane Garofalo
I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.
— Jenny Eclair
My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class.
— Seth Meyers
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
— Marilyn Monroe
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.
— John Carpenter
'Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek. 
— Scoot McNairy
You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.
— Kay Panabaker
I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.
— Jamaica Kincaid
I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.
— Cecelia Ahern
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.
— Will Self
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
— Sheryl Sandberg
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
— Michael Merzenich
The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.
— KaDee Strickland
We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
— Ja Rule
My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.
— Denis Leary
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
— Chinua Achebe
When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
— Ian Mckellen
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
— Philip Johnson
A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
— Cate Blanchett
Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.
— George Kaiser
How young can you die of old age?
— Steven Wright
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
— Haruki Murakami
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
— Michael Caine
The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.
— Wiz Khalifa
When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.
— Claire Scovell LaZebnik
I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
— David Chipperfield
In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.
— Amanda Schull
When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.
— Richard Attias
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
— B. F. Skinner
All diseases run into one, old age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
— George Bernard Shaw
Being seventy is not a sin.
— Golda Meir
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. 
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Minds ripen at very different ages.
— Stevie Wonder
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
— Frances Conroy
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
— Ambrose Bierce
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
— Orson Welles
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
— Earl Warren
After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
— Franco Harris
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
— Andre Maurois
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
— Arthur C. Clarke
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
— Washington Irving
Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
— George Burns
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
— Jonathan Swift
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age. 
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
— Michel de Montaigne
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
— John Denham
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
— Walker Percy
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
— Peter Ustinov
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
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
— Pearl S. Buck
From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.
— Sophie Tucker
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
— Graham Greene
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
— George Clooney
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
— Bob Ehrlich
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
— E. Joseph Cossman
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
— Marvin Hamlisch
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
— Eric Bentley
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
— Joe Lieberman
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
— Reynolds Price
I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
— John Singleton
It is people's hearts that move the age.
— Herbie Hancock
Dissents speak to a future age.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
— Magic Johnson
I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
— Jerry Stiller
It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.
— Robert B. Laughlin
State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.
— Charles Bass
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.
— Spike Lee
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
— Jung Chang
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
— Wim Wenders
We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
— Jeremy Rifkin
Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age.
— Rosanna Arquette
Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.
— Suzanne Somers
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
— Daniel Goleman
I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
— Moon Unit Zappa
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
— Robert Morgan
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.
— Johnny Winter
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
— Kate Capshaw
I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home.
— Richard Briers
If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
— Kenneth H. Cooper
If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.
— William Devane
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
— Stephen Fry
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
— Len Wein
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
— Jimmy Buffett
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.
— Wendy Wasserstein
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
— Jacques Barzun
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.
— Stephen Bayley
Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age. 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
— Raymond Chandler
No lie ever reaches old age.
— Sophocles
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
— Bono
I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.
— Kristen Stewart
I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
— Jay Weatherill
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
— Viola Davis
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.
— Kevin O'Leary
I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.
— Angie Harmon
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
— Wislawa Szymborska
I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!
— Alexa Vega
The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.
— Charles Kennedy
I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.
— Jerry Doyle
You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
— Al Pacino
We live in an age of mediocrity.
— Lauren Bacall
I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
— Ringo Starr
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
— Lady Gaga
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
— Vivienne Westwood
I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.
— Jamie Foxx
I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.
— Liz Phair
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
— Larry Elder
Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.
— Carson Kressley
Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.
— Michael K. Powell
I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.
— Stephen Hunter
To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.
— Josh Radnor
The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.
— Mick Cornett
We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
— Karl Marlantes
My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.
— Michael Weatherly
I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?
— Stuart Rose
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.
— Peter Senge
My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age I realise it's not normal at all. 
— Alice Eve
You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.
— Michael B. Jordan
There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
— John Forbes Nash, Jr.
We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.
— Robert Harris
Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.
— Sugata Mitra
I think no matter what age you are, you know when you love something in your heart.
— Cindy Busby
Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.
— David Cross
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.
— Gregory Maguire
It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.
— Heather Brooke
The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.
— Ron White
I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.
— Tim Burton
I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.
— Q'orianka Kilcher
I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.
— Penn Jillette
The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.
— Douglas Rushkoff
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.
— Colm Toibin
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.
— Chuck Close
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
— Adora Svitak
Soon, I'm going to meet somebody around my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful, and I'm going to date her daughter.
— Bob Saget
Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.
— Julia Roberts
A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
— Michael Caine
A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.
— Janet Jackson
In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.
— Janet Jackson
I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.
— Sharon Stone
The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.
— Liya Kebede
In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.
— Ezra Taft Benson
We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel.
— Carmen Dell'Orefice
Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
— Dana Goodyear
A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.
— Anita Shreve
In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For the first time in American history, it was not only legal to relinquish a baby; in Nebraska, it was okay to abandon any child of any age for any reason at any time - with the full protection of the law.
— Wil S. Hylton
I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.
— Chris Meledandri
I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
— Madhuri Dixit
I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.
— Alice Waters
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
— Billy Graham
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
— Imtiaz Ali
You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'
— Marianne Williamson
Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
— Ciaran Hinds
That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.
— Alan Arkin
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
— Ira Sachs
I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.
— Mark Wahlberg
Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.
— Dennis Prager
I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.
— Ian Harding
Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.
— David Rakoff
When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.
— Justine Bateman
Here's my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they're emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that's 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?
— Rob Lowe
It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.
— Patti Davis
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
— Ma Jian
I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
— Adam DeVine
I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.
— Morris Gleitzman
If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.
— Ronnie Musgrove
My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.
— Ian McLagan
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
— Maya Angelou
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
— Noam Chomsky
I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.
— Taylor Swift
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
— Douglas Coupland
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
— Tom Stoppard
Age merely shows what children we remain.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the '90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.
— Marco Rubio
You've gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they're not a part of the whole social media world.
— Kevin Hart
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
— Mason Cooley
'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
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
— Carine Roitfeld
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
— John Updike
We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
— Ian Mckellen
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.
— Joan Rivers
At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
— Lou Holtz
At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
— Nicolas Cage
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
— Thomas Carlyle
I think it is absolutely crazy in this day and age that I have to go through a trial and error method to see if my child is allergic to an antibiotic or peanuts. I should just know.
— Anne Wojcicki
I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.
— Ryan Gosling
With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.
— David Byrne
This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.
— Twyla Tharp
Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.
— Matt Bomer
Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to solve - developing typefaces that work on mobile phones, for one - and enabled better solutions to old problems.
— Virginia Postrel
To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.
— Dennis Prager
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.
— Sissy Spacek
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
— Dick Cavett
Jesus is the politics of the new age He is about the establishment of a kingdom He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world. 
— Stanley Hauerwas
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.
— Morrissey
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
— John Ruskin
You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
— Ellie Goulding
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.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
— Elton John
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
— Jason Mraz
My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
— Anna Kendrick
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
I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.
— Sienna Miller
I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
— Maria Sharapova
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
— John Mayer
I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.
— Robert Smith
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
— Charles Caleb Colton
No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it's always about living in the moment and being in the moment... I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively.
— Christie Brinkley
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. 
— Julia Roberts
You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.
— Noel Gallagher
We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
— Joan Jett
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.
— Diablo Cody
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
— Jonathan Sacks
Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
— Dan Jenkins