55 Years Old Sayings

#1. Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

William Gibson

#2. We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#3. I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Haruki Murakami

#4. I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.

George Burns

#5. So what should we say when children complete a task - say, math problems - quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let's do something you can really learn from!

Carol S. Dweck

#6. [Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.

Will Eisner

#7. I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#8. I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

David Bowie

#9. Neuron is to Consciousness, what D.N.A. is to Life. Thus, Biology of Mind is to the twenty-first century, what Biology of Life was to the twentieth century.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. I feel like people think of me as someone who really believes in a "sex as empowerment" philosophy, like Sasha Grey or something, when actually I feel like I'm much more what a lot of liberal feminists would call "sex negative" than most women I know.

Marie Calloway

#11. The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

Alan Greenspan

#12. It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

Emma Thompson