"When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves."
"Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving."
"If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman."
"From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine."
"Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am."
"In America, everyone's always hiding their age."
"India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities."
"I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer."
"I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22."
"Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27."
"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."
"I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons."
"There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead."
"People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly."
"We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish."
"I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in."
"At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery."
"My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow."
"I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream."
"When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't."
"The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year."
"'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe."
"I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel."
"But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit."
"A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet."
"Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead."
"You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me."
"Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats."
"The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity."
"I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty."
