Middle Aged Quotes - Page 3

• When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Jobs, Home, College

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• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Danger, Middle

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• Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Kids, Men, Years

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• It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

  Diane Keaton

  Kind, Disappear, Advantage

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

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• I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

  Chris Bauer

  Thinking, Men, White Man

  Source: collider.com

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• Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

  Sally Phillips

  Past, Hot, Topics

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• I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Children, People, Four

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• When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

  Elmer Davis

  Men, Half, Telling The Truth

  On not being Dead, as Reported

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• On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

  Alice Cooper

  Real, Golf, Makeup

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

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• Last night was Super Tuesday - a 10-state GOP Primary orgy. A big, sweaty pile of lever-yankin Republican voters. And like most orgies, it involves a bunch of middle aged guys who are not appealing to women.

  Stephen Colbert

  Night, Tuesday, Guy

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• Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

  J. A. Spender

  Vices, Youth, Middle

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• The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

  Samantha Bond

  Bed, Watches, Television

  "Samantha Bond: why so few middle-aged women on TV?" by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 23, 2012.

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• I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

  Terry McMillan

  Trying, Naked, Looks

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.11, Penguin

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• After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Soul, Middle

  Anne Lamott (1986). “Joe Jones”, Ballantine Books

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• Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Class, Waiting

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• All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.

  Henry Rollins

  Appreciated, Middle

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• After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep.

  Lorrie Moore

  Tired, Sleep, Fate

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.36, Vintage

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• He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Angel, Parks

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Democracies Have, Lust, Democracy

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.14, Verso

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• There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. But she had that memory now, of something healthy and pure.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Memories, Live Life, Home

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.162, Random House

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• You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Regret, Mistake

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• Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.

  David Mitchell

  Sex, Gay, Cities

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• The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost unemployable except in a narrow area of specialization. Large numbers of students for whom the program is inappropriate are trapped in it, because the Ph.D. has become a union card required for entry into the scientific job market.

  Freeman Dyson

  Jobs, Numbers, Average

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• If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.

  Bryan Greenberg

  Girl, Hipster, Kids

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

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• Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.

  Kinky Friedman

  Golf, Opportunity, Pimp

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