Citas sobre Age

“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”

“It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.”

“There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.”

“I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.”

“I got my black belt First Dan at the age of 12 and I was the youngest in my training centre. I practised karate till a few years ago and it has helped enhance my flexibility, stamina and mental toughness.”

“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

“I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.”

“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”

“I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.”

“As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.”

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

“You should never reveal your true age.”

“Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.”

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

“I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.”

“We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.”

“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.”

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”

“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.”

“Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.”