60th Birthday Quotes - Page 6

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

  Kristen Wiig

  Birthday, People, Worry

  "Would you like to be my bridesmaid?" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

  George Michael

  Birthday, People, Age

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• If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Birthday, Age, Frightened

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

  Jeanne Moreau

  Birthday, Numbers, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

  Roger Moore

  Birthday, Pneumonia, Age

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• Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

  Julia Roberts

  Funny, Birthday, Fall

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• I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

  Alexander McQueen

  Birthday, Fashion, Book

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• If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Age, Chairs

  1964 UnderstandingMedia.

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• What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

  Shimon Peres

  Birthday, Country, Ambition

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• Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Birthday, Children, Nursing

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• Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Jobs, Yesterday

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• O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Birthday, Regret, Age

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• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  Jack Nicholson

  Birthday, Age, Encounters

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• I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

  Morgan Freeman

  Birthday, Believe, Age

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• A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Birthday, Justice, Age

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

  Tom Hanks

  Birthday, Thinking, Years

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

  Salma Hayek

  Birthday, Believe, Age

  "Salma Hayek Pinault Opens Up About Marriage and Motherhood". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. October 18, 2011.

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• We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

  Jane Fonda

  Birthday, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

  James Buchan

  Birthday, Order, Challenges

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• Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

  Sandra Bullock

  Birthday, Age, Doe

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• A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

  Robert Browning

  Birthday, Dream, Age

  Robert Browning (1872). “In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances”, p.141

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• Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Age, Rereading

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• There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

  James Buchan

  Birthday, Running, Average

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• 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

  Birthday, Past, Age

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• The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

  Fiona Apple

  Birthday, People, Age

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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