Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

Firestarter

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

A Fatal Waltz

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

The Gilded Age

My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

The Hero of Ages

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

The Hero of Ages

One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams

How To Do It At Any Age

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

The Hero of Ages

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

The Hero of Ages

For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.

Bird After Bird

In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.

Beyond John Dann

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Because, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, I was embraced by the gays. They loved me and praised me. I was funny and so mean and mature for my age!

Bossypants

It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a vacation.

The Book Thief

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

Alison Bechdel

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of ...

Anthony Browne

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

Ann Coulter

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age of 17, I happened upon a screening of Alain Resnais' 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' and it took my breath away.

Arnon Goldfinger