Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

Hons and Rebels

(backpacker having conversation with Lizzie the Australian main character) Backpacker: 'What's the drinking age in Australia?' 'eighteen' 'is that enforced' Lizzie thought for a second before answering seriously, 'yes, they make us drink

The Happiness Show

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

The Interestings

There has been, down through the ages, a very real and "purposeful" conspiracy to thwart the plans of God.

The Judas Epidemic: Exposing the Betrayal of the Christian Faith in Church and Government

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

Krapp's Last Tape & Embers

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.

The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories

Never, Never give up, no matter what is you age, magick always is there. Use it!

Rhyonna's Fright, A Faery's Challenge to Save Her Realm

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

The Seven Ages

His only real financial failure came at the age of thirteen, when in an uncharacteristic error of judgement he invested £200,000 of his own savings in wooden socks, an invention that never caught on as he had hoped.

Shadow of the Badger

But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age." "I thought you liked redheads." "I do. What's your point?

Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

The Spider's House

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.

The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

No Man Is an Island

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

Letters to Children

And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.

Life and Fate

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

The Lonesome Gods

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea.

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures