3 December 2020 David Mitchell In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we’re now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.
3 December 2020 Michael Caine Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
3 December 2020 John le Carre When you’re my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I’d just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
3 December 2020 Nicki Minaj I’ve always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.
3 December 2020 Tom Wilson Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
3 December 2020 Florida Scott-Maxwell Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hardy The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
3 December 2020 Colin Firth One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age – at the age of 38 in fact – he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
3 December 2020 Sinclair Lewis Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
3 December 2020 Jason Mraz 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.
3 December 2020 Daniel Day-Lewis At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
3 December 2020 Maggie Smith It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
3 December 2020 Henry Rollins I’m 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I’d also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people – I don’t want to judge it or anything – but it’s not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
3 December 2020 Queen Latifah I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
3 December 2020 Eddie Van Halen I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it so was my brother.
3 December 2020 Leon Edel The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
