Recency Quotes

#1. I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

Nadine Gordimer

#2. From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

Lauryn Hill

#3. Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

Tony Greig

#4. Even Quinn joined in and took his turn picking obscure items, like a feather cloak that originated in far-off New Zealand.

Alice Wallis-Eton

#5. The scalpel won't make you happy.

Demi Moore

#6. In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.

Chuck Jones

#7. I absolutely adore Alessandra Rich, I think her dresses are stunning and she really knows how to cut and dress the female shape. Her stuff is really beautiful, stylish and a little bit quirky. I love it all!

Jessica Brown Findlay

#8. Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

Christopher Hitchens