I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.
The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.
My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football.
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
