Quotes of: Golden-age Keyword

I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.

Zarin Mehta

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of readin...

Walter Kirn

I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.

Jessica Brown Findlay

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

Mary J. Blige

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

Goldwin Smith

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illu...

Joshua Foer

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

A.G. Street's Country Calendar

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

Agostino

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

The Angel's Game

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

Attempting Normal

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.

Advice To A Young Scientist

Friendship knows no color, nationality, race and social level,  friendship knows no age and gender,  friendship knows no distance. 

Aphorisms of a Restless Soul

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

The Importance of Being Earnest

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

Joy for Beginners

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

Junky

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

The thing no one understood about Gwendolyn Reese was that she was three ages at once: thirty chronologically, forty-five intellectually and fifteen experientially.

A Summer In Europe