Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age. – Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. – Walter Savage Landor
From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. – Sophie Tucker
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. – Wassily Kandinsky
What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I’m interested in, the thing I’m most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do. – Yo-Yo Ma
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. – Wyndham Lewis
My favourite performances are by actresses like Bette Davis in ‘All About Eve’ or Gena Rowlands in pretty much anything – performances that have nothing to do with age. – Winona Ryder
I’ve never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it’s my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference. – Sofia Vergara
‘If The Weather Permits’ was closer to my heart because it was a woman closer to my age, with a contemporary background like mine. I felt for that character. I’ve seen so many women like that – smart women who are a wreck when it comes to their emotional lives. – Twinkle Khanna
I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to ‘Tron,’ but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn’t really see any of that stuff, and I haven’t been able to catch up since. – Tricia Helfer
You reach a certain age, and you realize, ‘Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don’t leave me out – I don’t want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.’ – Ted Danson
Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away? – Sam Weller
My grandmother – my mother’s mother – was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17. – Sarah Gavron
I wouldn’t mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arctic Monkeys. I’d like to do be a bit of guitar with them guys. I’ll play on anyone’s record to be honest with you. – Steve Jones
Sometimes I become attached to a character because I’ve gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in ‘Diablo III’ or Sandal in ‘Dragon Age.’ – Yuri Lowenthal
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board. – William Boyd
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don’t have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can’t obsess about it. – Sienna Miller
From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam’s doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides. – Sheldon Lee Glashow
My mum calls my temper ‘Devilman.’ They say you calm down with age, but I don’t know. It never goes away. – Vinnie Jones
I think monogamy exists when you’re of age. I’m not saying that’s good, but in today’s time, a female won’t honestly get a full commitment until they’re at least 25 or 26. That’s not good, but that’s how it is. – Tink
There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. – Sophia Loren
We’ve always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It’s no less brutal now; each age has its horrors. – Terri Windling
In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it’s the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it. – Vincent Nichols
Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to play them. – Siobhan Finneran
Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays. – Tom Stoppard
