You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.
‐‐ Tom Shales
You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
‐‐ Hannah Kent
You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.
‐‐ Cheech Marin
You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.
‐‐ Stedman Graham
You know you're living right when you wake up, brush your hair - and confetti falls out!
‐‐ Katy Perry
You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn
You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos
You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller
You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller
You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller
You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.
‐‐ Mary Browne
You know you're on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don't have anything to give once you give it to the people.
‐‐ Artie Lange
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson
You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.
‐‐ Jennifer Jason Leigh
You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he's been financially. He's a very generous person. We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person that is trying to hide things, or do things? No.
‐‐ Ann Romney
You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.
‐‐ Brad Dourif
You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'
‐‐ M. C. Gainey
You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone
You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.
‐‐ Josh Kopelman
You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.
‐‐ Katie Couric
You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.
‐‐ Scott Weiland
You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett
You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
‐‐ Gaines Adams
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
‐‐ Paul Sweeney
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
‐‐ Lee Ann Womack
You know, you want to be a success. You want people to know who you are.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hurley
You know, you want to pull in a wide audience.
‐‐ David Spade
You know, you want to win and you want a ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.
‐‐ Michael Strahan
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
‐‐ David Mamet
You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
‐‐ Paul Graham
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
‐‐ Chuck Berry
You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.
‐‐ Brandi Carlile
You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.
‐‐ Kathy Mattea
You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson
You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
‐‐ Kate Thompson
You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'
‐‐ Marianne Williamson
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
‐‐ Albert Ellis
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
‐‐ Jonathan Davis
You launch a site, and you see what works, and you continue to make it better.
‐‐ Chad Hurley
You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
‐‐ Dan Webster
You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.
‐‐ Roger Penske
You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.
‐‐ Klaus Kinski
You learn a lot about a person when you work together.
‐‐ Alexis Denisof
You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.
‐‐ Gustavo Dudamel
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt
You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain
You learn a lot about vital corporations through non-vital corporations.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive
You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.
‐‐ Rod Stewart
You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson