Ages Quotes

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Some people think wearing powder ages them, but try it anyway. For me it mattes my makeup and blends it well.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.