All Quotes

At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.
‐‐ James Balog

At the age of 61, my hip went. I was skiing in Chile with my son, and there was a turn, and I kept falling. I thought, 'What an idiot; what's going on here?'
‐‐ Michael Hintze

At the age of 62, my father died of cancer - it was much too soon. My mother never remarried or got over it, never even thought of another man.
‐‐ Monique Roffey

At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.
‐‐ John Searles

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
‐‐ Harry Seidler

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.
‐‐ Charles Eastman

At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.
‐‐ Zilpha Keatley Snyder

At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.
‐‐ Daniel Hope

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.
‐‐ Shakira

At the age of eight I started getting into fashion, brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph Lauren. But in 2005 I started wearing John Richmond jeans.
‐‐ ASAP Rocky

At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future disposition of his soul. Traditionally, after he dies, a search party of senior monks would set out to locate his new incarnation, who is most often a boy toddler, who goes on to be trained as a monk and a leader.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
‐‐ Jung Chang

At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.
‐‐ Violette Leduc

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov

At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier.
‐‐ Ronald Frame

At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their clothes were mysterious and alluring - added to which, they could not speak a word of English. More than anything, I wanted to connect with them and embark on a vast journey of exploration.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
‐‐ Noel Redding

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.
‐‐ Shmuel Yosef Agnon

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
‐‐ Salvador Dali

At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That's the whole idea of effective weight loss - it's permanent because it's part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own - you own it.
‐‐ Jean Nidetch

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
‐‐ David Bergen

At the age that I was when I stopped reading comics, and with a set of talents that would seem to mark a future comic-book auteur, my son has had only a passing enthusiasm for the medium.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
‐‐ Satyajit Ray

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.
‐‐ Jamie Muir

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
‐‐ Robert Caro

At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.
‐‐ Baba Kalyani

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.
‐‐ Lisa Cholodenko

At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.
‐‐ Evan Davis

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.
‐‐ Seinabo Sey

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.
‐‐ Alberto Fujimori

At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all of a sudden, in 1977, he gave me a Polaroid camera, and I discovered that instead of having to go to a lab and develop the film, I could just take a click and get a picture! It was genius, and I was very good at manipulating it.
‐‐ Maripol

At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to be the main characters; they're all fighting it out. It's like kind of the best time in a way.
‐‐ Stephen Gaghan

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
‐‐ Patrick Modiano

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.
‐‐ Susan Isaacs

At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.
‐‐ Jam Master Jay

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
‐‐ Charlotte Gainsbourg

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.
‐‐ David Herbert Donald

At the beginning, my folks were pretty upset with the whole thing at first, the music, the tattoos - but after observing the music scene I'm in now for a couple of years, they totally get it - they actually love it. They are so proud. My dad actually flew to Japan to see us play. My mom comes to the shows near home in Washington.
‐‐ Matty Mullins