All Quotes

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
‐‐ Graham Greene

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
‐‐ Eugenio Montale

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
‐‐ Margaret Sanger

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not.
‐‐ Paul Stamets

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
‐‐ Nancy Banks Smith

Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
‐‐ Samantha Bond

Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, 'How can this thing be happening; isn't it strange?'
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.
‐‐ Adrian Belew

Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.
‐‐ Bill Rodgers

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.
‐‐ Mary Karr

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
‐‐ James Truslow Adams

Age affects how people experience time.
‐‐ Edward T. Hall

Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
‐‐ Donna Karan

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.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
‐‐ Lois Wyse

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

Age considers; youth ventures.
‐‐ Rabindranath Tagore

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
‐‐ Estelle Getty

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
‐‐ James Anthony Froude

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
‐‐ Jean Paul

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
‐‐ Anais Nin

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.
‐‐ Tony Benn

Age doesn't affect driving - how do you like that?
‐‐ Mario Andretti

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
‐‐ David Bowie

Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.
‐‐ Zendaya

Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.
‐‐ Arjun Rampal

Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

Age for me is just a number.
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
‐‐ Morrissey

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
‐‐ Navjot Singh Sidhu

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
‐‐ Satchel Paige

Age is a chronological number. That's all. There is plenty of time for my life afterwards. I'm still a young woman.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.
‐‐ Jared Kushner

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
‐‐ Elizabeth Wurtzel

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.
‐‐ Diana Cooper

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
‐‐ Miriam Makeba

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.
‐‐ Jane Elliot

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.
‐‐ Louise Nurding

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
‐‐ Madhuri Dixit

Age is just a number for me! A person is as young as he feels.
‐‐ Sunny Deol