Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

Xavi

I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

Zeljko Ivanek

I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wil...

Bat for Lashes

It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat to me about songs. The emotions I feel are what any person can relate to. Sometimes I'm just a narrator.

Ella Henderson

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

Jane Rule

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

This wasn’t the Dark Ages, and she wasn’t living in a third world nation where women didn’t have any rights and were treated unequally.

Alien Promise

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

The Humans

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.

The Hiding Place

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Invisible Monsters

I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to this moment.

The Intended

In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

Indian Summer

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

Everyday she loses a bit more of herself , every day another nail in her coffin house payments medical bills and middle aged isolation

Jukebox

Are we Human? Or are we dancer? My sign is vital, My hands are cold, And I'm on my knees, begging for the answer, To are we Human? Or are we Dancer?

The Killers - Day & Age

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

A Room of One's Own

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

The Spiral House

Umm, how old are you?” Alexis asked, a little hesitant to answer before making sure he wasn’t a minor. “Twenty-one, but age is just a number,” the guy responded.

The Shoreline

Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.

Spirit Tale Five: Teacher of Knowledge