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" Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. "

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" As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected. "

" Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. "

" On the night of 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'hope' and 'change.' He was hailed as a 'uniter' in an age of 'dividers.' I experienced a political awakening that night. I watched as the hope that President Obama represented was tempered by the shocking passage of Proposition 8 by a majority of voters in California. "

Chelsea Manning

" In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. "

Brooks Atkinson

" Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. "

" Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. "

" You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens. "

Anthony Bourdain

" In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.' "

" Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. "

" As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really? "

" If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. "

" In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment. "

" The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India. "

" Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. "

Emily Dickinson

" Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. "

" For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. "

Yotam Ottolenghi

" To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act. "

" In a digital age, I still love sending and receiving cards, hand-writing notes, and wrapping gifts. "

Matthew Williamson

" Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age. "

" My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age. "

Herschel Walker

" We cannot continue to allow immigrants to come here illegally. And in this age of terrorism, we must not let in refugees whose intentions cannot be determined. "

" I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same. "

" Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age. "

" I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. "

" I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. "

" Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. "

" I've always loved music and was singing from the age of seven on karaoke. "

Christina Grimmie

" America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean. "

John Paul Jones