I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.
A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.
That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
Oh, don't look at this frail, old druid like that, Solomon. I may be slow in my movements, buy my mind is sharp as a dagger's tip." Lazerin smirked.
I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none of.
Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.
The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from their grave towards what is coming next.
Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.
Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.
My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long-held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a more flattering color.
Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind.
As difficult an environment as the DA's Office could be, I saw no overarching conspiracy against women. The unequal treatment was usually more a matter of old habits dying hard.
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.
Don't become a grumpy old dater! Life ids for living, laughing and loving!Stop searching, start finding!
You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
