Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

John Boyne

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

Jane Fonda

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

Jenny McCarthy

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

Jamie Oliver

Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

Kristen Wiig

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Kristen Wiig

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

Lytton Strachey

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Larry Wall

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

Peter Greenaway

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

Philip Reeve

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Richard Dawkins

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

Robert Fogel

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Randall Jarrell

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

Raymond Moody

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

Sylvia Browne

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

William Wordsworth

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Arianna Huffington

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

Audre Lorde

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Bertolt Brecht

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Caroline Knapp