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" Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. "

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" It is not how old you are, but how you are old. "

" People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. "

" The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. "

" Some age, others mature. "

" Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do. "

" 'All the Stars in the Heavens' takes place during the golden age of Hollywood, around an imagined story about Loretta Young; Clark Gable; Alda, a young woman with a secret who is preparing to become a nun but is cast out of her convent; and the scenic artist she meets on the set of 'The Call of the Wild.' It's a big, lush historical novel. "

Adriana Trigiani

" At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. "

Flannery O'Connor

" The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location. "

Stacey D'Erasmo

" I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago. "

" Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "

" The age of the Earth makes no difference with respect to Christ's atoning sacrifice for humanity's sin or to the nature and character of God, Earth's age has no bearing on any of the historic Christian doctrines. No mention of Earth's age appears in even the most detailed creedal statements. "

" Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. "

" Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. "

" You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life. "

" We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones. "

" In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters. "

Eduardo Galeano

" Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. "

E. Joseph Cossman

" I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine. "

Magdalena Neuner

" At the age of 21, I had never even stepped on a treadmill. "

" Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. "

" Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. "

Albert Einstein

" Chinese people age overnight. "

Karl Pilkington

" I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. "

" The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12. "

" Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do. "

" One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. "

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

" By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them. "

" A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. "

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

" The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. "

" Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age. "

Carol Vorderman