The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
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.
Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.
Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
The future of AEW is Maxwell J. Friedman, without a shadow of a doubt. I am going to be the face of this company. At the tender age of 23... people think I'm great now? They don't know the half of it. I mean, my career's only just begun.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.
I grew up going to a school where there weren't a lot of black kids. And so my mother, from a very, very young age, has sensitized me to race.
Future's like an older brother to me, and Thug's more like a brother my age.
I'm just happy that Jesus Christ, um, did not let me lose my teeth when I was 20 years old. 'Cause I was wondering, like, what if you kept your baby teeth until the age of 18 or 20, and then you lose 'em? That would look pretty bad.
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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.
Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.
As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher.
One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you're younger than you thought you were.
Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.
I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.
I think this is how life is. It's not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as you age and acquire experiences.
I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after - I have arthritis - and money is a factor.
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
We will not continue to be in the post-'79 era. That age is over.
I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16, it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself, even, and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.
We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction.
It doesn't surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body.
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.