We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do...
The age of the book is almost gone.
Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.
We are always the same age inside.
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.
There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.
We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an item in the United States. We put warnings on coffee cups to tell us that the contents may be hot. And we seem to think that...
In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foo...
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay aft...
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
