As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.
The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.
Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
Chantelle Brown-Young is my real name. Winnie is my nickname that I was given as a teenager, and it has stuck with me. I've combined my real name and my nick name to create 'Chantelle Winnie.' My alter ego, where I seek confidence when I model, is 'Winnie Harlow.'
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
You get old faster when you think about retirement.
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance
We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".
Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
The best thing to save for your old age is yourself.
The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age.
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.