Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?

Donna Lynn Hope

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

Diane Keaton

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

J. Paul Getty

I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.

Jeremy Hardy

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

Natasha Lyonne

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Manfred: If you find a mate in life, you should be loyal. In your case, grateful.

Ice Age

[on Sid's clumsy attempts to scale a cliff] Manfred: You're an embarrassment to nature. Ya know that?

Ice Age

Birdie Steptoe: Man of my age needs a little snort in the morning, heat the boilers.

The Night of the Hunter

James Bond: Age is no guarantee of efficiency and youth is no guarantee of innovation.

Skyfall

Homer, the aged poet: What is wrong with peace that its inspiration doesn't endure?

Wings of Desire

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

Victor Davis Hanson

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Criss Angel

[first lines] Bruce Wayne - age 8: Rachel, let me see! Can I see?

Batman Begins

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

Antony Beevor

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Alain de Botton

Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances.

Auliq Ice

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

Anonymous

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Anne Tyler

In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to ‎innovate will die

Bernard Kelvin Clive