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“I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.”

Thinking Want Children Would Be Running Age Guy Doors

Author:Denise Van Outen

“I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.”

Thinking Knows Feels Years Said Reason Would Be Age Numbers Doctors Active Lists Ridiculous Bloody Vitamins

Author:Regis Philbin

“If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.”

Ifs Mind Believe Would Be Age Father Jesus Sound Christ Jesus Christ Conclusion Folly Latter Falsehood Testament New Testament Fanatics Irresistible Biographers Sound Mind

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.”

Feels Stories Feelings Would Be Age Century Scene Medieval

Author:Oliver Stone

“The information age is so psychotic - without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.”

Would Be Age Information Internet Drama Right Now Phones Cells Cell Phone Psychotic Information Age

Book:Two-way Street

Source: Two-way Street

“I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Would Be Age Progress Failing Modern Grew Grew Up Tunes Bad Things Southern Sensibility Annoyed Texan

Author:John Graves

“It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.”

Art Made Would Be Age Difficult Fund This Day Slurs

Author:Jane Alexander

“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”

Thinking Play Would Be Age Difficult Growing Difficulty Determine Sermons

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.”

Firsts Would Be Age Grows Advice Ancestor Ice Age

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.”

Thinking Would Be Age Film Interesting Comfort Comfortable Appeals Instant Girlfriend Old Girlfriend

Author:Bill Murray

“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.”

Ifs Would Be Age Happened Disappointment Decades Reverse Conceded

Book:The Age of Miracles

Source: The Age of Miracles

“The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.”

Ifs Men Years Matter Would Be Age Political Courses Work Benefits Sixty Uselessness Professional Life

Author:William Osler

“The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!”

Men Feels Long Two Whole Seems Would Be Age Remember Reading Effort Emotion Too Much Drinking Admire Excess Thorough Bruises Stimulation

Book:Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

“Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable.”

“If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.”

Ifs Years Heart Would Be Age Mankind Thousand Standing Remains Conservative Intellect Thousand Years Commonplace Great Conservative

Book:Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source: Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.”

Would Be Age Religious Attitude Enemy Teach Mines Higher Humble Foolish Be Humble Higher Power

Book:Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

“Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.”

“From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.”

Ifs World Stills Would Be Age Progress Trumpets Platitudes

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody's existence on this planet? Clearly we don't really think they should be blown up, that's just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?”

“The thought of people in this day and age sitting down to listen to a radio variety show on Saturday evening is rather implausible and was even more so in 1974 when we started “A Prairie Home Companion.” Thank goodness Minnesota Public Radio was too poor to afford good advice or the show never would've got on the air. We only did it because we knew it would be fun to do. It was a dumb idea. I wish I knew how to be that dumb again.”

“Nobody fights with Jerry because you know the price would be too high. You might come out the winner, at his age, you might even lick him, but you'd lose an eye, an arm, your testicles in the process, everything would be gone.”

Knows Might Would Be Eye Age Funny Fighting Process Loses Gone Arms Winner Nba Jerry Testicles

Author:Frank Layden

“In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"”

Men Way Years Would Be Age Guy Rooms Five Normal Twenties Forty Twenty Five Forty Years Old

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.”

“Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.”

Ifs Giving Would Be Age Christian Growth Practice Conversion Peaceful Rely Communist Missionary Cult Viruses Offence Religion Christian

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.”

People Would Be Age My Own Company Exile Insufferable Demotion

Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

“I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.”

Thinking Would Be Age Hundred Fifty

Book:Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

“The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.”

Way Ideas Would Be Age Four Husband

Book:Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

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