Top 1200 Certain Age Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.

You know, I think sometimes certain players - and I don't name names - but certain players have a certain haircut, they have certain sack celebrations. They draw a lot of attention to themselves.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me.

Cuddly toy rabbits were a real comfort for all of my babies - once they got to a certain age they would nuzzle the fur.

It's censorship, really. I don't see why it's not okay for somebody under the age of 17 watch someone smoking when they can watch someone have their brains blown out? My son and I were watching an ad on the television the other day. And it said, "Rated R." He said, "What does 'rated R' mean?" I said, "God, I don't know. You can't watch it unless you're over a certain age."

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

It's always a matter of convincing the insurance people. They seem to think that after a certain age, you're just going to fall over or something.

It's hard to dance after a certain age. All those athletic things - like looking up at my kneecaps - they're just not there anymore.

I think I have a certain kind of style. I think at the same time, I'm aware that there's certain things that I did as a playwright in certain plays, and I try not to repeat myself, even though I have a certain kind of sensibility, and I tend to gravitate toward certain things.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, where these incredible roles were written for women like Joan Crawford, like Bette Davis. But then there was a space of time where - I don't know why - it wasn't like that. It became difficult for women to find certain roles after a certain age.

You come to a certain age in life and wonder, 'I am holding back for what?' Why not just say it?

It feels like there's something for everyone in video games. It's not just a toy for a certain age group. It's steeped in the culture now.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

You hit a certain age and it's, are you still motivated to play? It's the motivation, the drive that kind of leads you, and the body goes, too.

For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.

When you get to be a certain age, you want to wear your tops a little longer or pants that are more generous in the back area.

You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

Sometimes I just trust certain intuitions on certain things. As we age, I start to follow it without being scared. So whatever it was - moving to New York, getting married with Grace - I always had that first impression about something. I'm not saying be superficial. I'm not about that. It's more of a thing you have from the stomach. It's a magnet, you are attracted to it. When I was younger, I would question it. I wouldn't follow it. But as I get older, I am just going for it, without fear.

To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

One thing I do not see happening is women of certain age being represented correctly. We have to evolve conceptually.

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

I just realized the other day that Clara [in Aquarius] and I are now going to be apart year by year. She's still 65, and I'm 66 now. When you make a movie, it preserves you at a certain age, and it's so wonderful that Clara has preserved me at 65. People are talking about her age in a way that is positive and respectful, which is so wonderful.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are the target of police stops, interrogations, frisks, often for no reason other than their race. And, of course, this level of harassment sends a message to them, often at an early age: No matter who you are or what you do, you're going to find yourself behind bars one way or the other. This reinforces the sense that prison is part of their destiny, rather than a choice one makes.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

I have always loved wood. Every piece is different. It gets better with age and it has a certain character all of its own.

I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history.

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.