A Quotes
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“At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.”
“At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.”
“At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.”
“At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!”
“At 50, you probably get muddled?
I'm the same, that's how I know?
If you ever get lost, don't worry?
Just change where you want to go”
“At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle.”
“At 55 I think I'm almost ready to grow up a bit - stay young at heart, be open to possibilities and play when you can”
“At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.”
“At 6:00 a.m. light streamed in the side window of the Harlem brownstone; it hit Father David like a beacon from God.”
Source: Certain Cure: Where Science Meets Religion
“At 6 foot 7 Peter Crouch isn't as tall as he looks.”
“At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.”
Source: Chris Burden, February 18, 1976
“At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.”
“At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.”
“At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.”
Source: An autobiography
“At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.”
“At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.”
“At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.”
“At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.”
“At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.”
“At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.”
“At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.”
“At 7 in the morning, Rob Zombie calls. I just let the machine answer it, because I'm like, "Who's calling me at 7 in the morning?" It's Rob leaving this message, going, "That was the best birthday present I ever got in my whole life. I looked at Halloween script from cover to cover. No one else will ever get their fingers on this. It's wrapped in plastic. It's going in my vault. I love it. Thank you."”
“At 70, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that "this too, shall pass.”
Source: Eleanor: The Years Alone
“At 70, we reach the speed of a dog's life.”
“At 78 years of age, I discovered myself; and the most significant thing was, I realized it wasn't too late!
Nothing in life can be said to be, "Too late." The expression, 'too late', is linked to time and as time is an illusion, thus, there is no such thing as 'too late.'
Who says it's 'too late'? Why your Ego of course. Who is my Ego? The Ego is the Bot in your brain, whose job it is to ensure you don't perform any actions that could harm you, or cause you to make an idiot out of yourself.
This Bot is wired with a logic that says, 'What you don't do won't harm you.' So, the surest way to stop you is to say, 'It's too late' The result? You stand there watching the back end of the tube train disappearing into the tunnel of Lost Opportunity.”
Source: Eerie Stillnes and Other Short Stories
“At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.”
“At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.”
Source: Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey
“At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied well ahead of time. Karl Liebknecht's voice then rang out: 'Down with the War! Down with the Government!' The police immediately rushed at him. For the first time since the beginning of the war open resistance to it had appeared on the streets of the capital. The ice was broken.”
“At 8, I made a pact with God.”
“At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.”
“At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.”
“At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.”
Source: The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
“At 9, with her stew more reduced than any set of freedoms could ever be, she decides she fancies a baked potato with it. We sit down an hour later and something about the lateness of the meal prompts her to bring up the family 'holidays' they used to take down in Devon. (She puts the word in scare quotes because as far as she's concerned a woman's work was never done.) She says there was something magical about those holidays, now that she thinks about it. 'We bought that cottage for fourteen grand. You couldn't get a back door for that money nowadays. But that's what happens. Things change. I mean, look at me. If I found myself in the back of the fridge I wouldn't think twice about throwing myself out.' I ask if she worries about getting old. She snorts. At the question's stupidity. 'The trouble with death,' she says, 'is that it stops you doing things.”
Source: The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
“At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.”
“At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.”
“At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.”
“At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperial merriment. Caligula, wiping the tears from his eyes, managed to gasp, "You'll never guess! It suddenly occurred to me that I had only to give a single nod, and both your throats would be cut on the spot."”
“At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.”
Source: Scoop
“At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.”
“At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch.”
“At a better pace, slower and more calculated
No chance of escape.”
“At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.”
“At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's
“At a café in Tokyo I order cheesecake. It comes in a thick slice with a lightly caramelized crust in the centre of a small white plate, the glaze gradually darkening to a deep cream towards the middle. To the top of the plate is what at first I take to be a logo, a golden crest. It dawns on me as I eat and sip my tea that it is in fact a carefully mended crack. A delicate piece of kintsugi, an exquisite golden repair.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.”
“At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse”
Source: The House of God
“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”
Source: Britt-Marie Was Here
“At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.”
“At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.”
“At a certain age just being around particular people is an event.”