Middle Aged Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Boys, Government

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 5, 2003.

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• It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

  Karin Fossum

  Hard Work, Tired, Character

  Karin Fossum (2013). “Broken”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a number of identities; I was a child, I was a boy, I was a teenager, I was a middle-aged man, I was an old man. Like other identities I thought would remain constant, they never remained so. Finally, I became very old. . . So which identity remained honest with me?

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Children, Real, Teenager

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (2011). “The Ultimate Medicine: Dialogues with a Realized Master”, p.154, North Atlantic Books

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• You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

  Andrew Denton

  Comedy, Comic, Middle

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

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• I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

  Sting

  Hate, Rocks, Rock Music

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• There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

  John Updike

  Men, Goes On, Middle

  1986 In the New York Times, 24 Mar.

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• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  Jacki Weaver

  Sweet, Children, Gay

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

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• The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, America, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.195, Random House

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• A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Virginia, Orange

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• As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  "Cakes And Ale".

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• Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Average, People, Spices

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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• Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

  John Shelton Reed

  Country, People, Middle

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• There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops...when she is beginning to hate her used body, she suddenly finds that she can do it. She can go on living.

  T. H. White

  Hate, Years, Law

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• I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

  Nigel Cole

  Men, People, Film

  "Ladies Man: 'Made in Dagenham' Director Nigel Cole". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.

  Julian Barnes

  Age, Looks, Fifty

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• It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Optimism, Pessimism, Middle

  'Beasts and Super-Beasts' (1914) 'The Byzantine Omelette'

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• For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

  John Barrowman

  Reason, Middle, Knows

  "John Barrowman interview: Sometimes fans send me knickers, but I never send mine back". www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2011.

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• I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.

  Dee Bradley Baker

  Xbox, Dad, Mean

  "Voice of Geek: an interview with Dee Bradley Baker". Interview with John Booth, www.wired.com. August 27, 2010.

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• A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

  E. B. White

  Running, Children, Sadness

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• The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Men, Horror Genre, Desire

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• I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don't have to be seen. I don't like how appearance oriented TV is (especially now that I'm middle aged!). But I am developing a show revolving around animal rescue which will hopefully entertain and maybe do a bit of good for the cause as well.

  Susan Olsen

  Animal, Behind The Scenes, Radio

  "'Brady Bunch' Feud: Susan 'Cindy' Olsen Says Lesbian Rumors False" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2009.

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• The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger women are attracted mainly by money. Social democratic capitalists believe that they are attracted mainly by power.

  Gary North

  Believe, Men, Goal

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• It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

  Cyril Connolly

  Infidelity, Age, Causes

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