Certain Age Quotes

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Age, Mind, Thinking

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

Age, After, Face

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Katharine Hepburn

Age, Yourself, Sex

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot

Life, Age, Older

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Elizabeth Taylor

Age, Men, Afraid

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
Christopher Hitchens

Age, Thought, After

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
David Bowie

Music, Age, Past

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
Doug Coupland

Dreams, Age, Past

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
Christopher Hitchens

Age, Thought, After

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
John Mayer

Age, Happiness, Happy

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.
Julie Walters

Age, Yourself, Give

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Work, Age, Apparent

Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.
Jenny McCarthy

Love, Age, Crazy

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.
Mia Wasikowska

Age, Question, Choose

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Jessica Lange

Life, Age, Death

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
Brian Clough

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
Arthur Miller

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
Ellie Goulding

Age, Dad, Yourself

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
Annie Dillard

Age, True, Long

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
Miuccia Prada

Age, Hate, Idea

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.
Jarvis Cocker

Age, Rock, Prove

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.
Courteney Cox

Age, Hard, Kids

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
Arthur Smith

Age, Seen, Beyond

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
Anna Kendrick

Age, Parents, Kids

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
Jane Seymour

Age, Women, Long

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
Mitch Daniels

Work, Age, Through

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
Natalie Imbruglia

Age, Babies, Planned

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Angela Carter

Age, Time, Mind

I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
Wallace Shawn

Life, Dreams, Age

You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.
Tom Colicchio

Age, Young, Whole

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