Senior Man Quotes

#1. For one woman, a college sophomore, "It's very special when someone turns away from a text to turn to a person." For a senior man, "If someone gets a text and apologizes and silences it [their phone], that sends a signal that they are there, they are listening to you.

Sherry Turkle

#2. 'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Chris Crutcher

#3. Look at me, Kate."
She raised her eyes to his.
"What do you see?"
She thought for a moment. "You've got a spot."
Charlie gave a snort of laughter. "You're not supposed to tell the fifth-sexiest man in UK, he's got a spot."
"Who voted? Senior citizens?

Barbara Elsborg

#4. This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. How was it possible that he could handle Swiss bankers, West End impresarios, senior partners and seasoned solicitors, but was a quivering wreck in the presence of this man?

Jeffrey Archer

#6. I'm just saying man is naturally a mythopoeic creature."
"What's that mean?" said the Senior Wrangler.
"Means we make things up as we go along," said the Dean, not looking up.

Terry Pratchett

#7. If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth ... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.

Daniel A. D'Aniello

#8. He was a thin, elegant-looking man with precise symmetrical features and the hushed, disapproving manner of a senior librarian.

Alastair Reynolds

#9. The way economists see it, the chances of an individual's vote influencing an election outcome is vanishingly small, so unless it is fun to vote, it doesn't make much sense to do so.

Steven D. Levitt

#10. Best advice was from a man by the name of James Dean. "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today". I read that my senior year in high school and have never stopped since.

Kelly Blatz

#11. Being me right now is sort of amazing.

Helen Mirren

#12. A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

Stephanie Coontz

#13. The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation.

Shunryu Suzuki

#14. A major announcement. Events are moving fast in my campaign, and yes, it's true that this morning I've dismissed my entire team of senior advisers. All of their positions will now be held by a man named 'Joe the Plumber.'

John McCain

#15. On Pt. K.L. Misra
Panditji lived a full life replete with achievements and honours. He was such a versatile and noble man that the like of him may not be born again. - Shanti Bhushan, Senior Advocate

Munindra Misra

#16. The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can't bring down God's house.

Saddam Hussein

#17. These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in which reputations are edgily tended and a man can be brought low by status anxiety. Poets, or at least this poet, are as earthbound as the rest.

Ian McEwan

#18. It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#19. I am the master of my destiny, the leader of my actions,
the dictator of my world for the power lives in me and no
one else.

Christina OW

#20. She got herself a boyfriend she wants us to meet. He's studying chemistry. A senior. She said that 3 or 4 times on the phone. Senior. Like it's supposed to mean something to me, as long as I been grown. Senior ain't nothing but a year. Young man's distinction.

Ravi Howard

#21. To love what you do and feel like it matters, how could anything be more fun?

Katherine Graham

#22. She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

Jodi Picoult

#23. North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

Barbara Demick

#24. But you have told me," Elizabeth protested, "time and again, that the hallmark of civilization is routine."
Lady D shrugged and made a fussy little chirping sound. "A lady cannot take it upon herself to occasionally change her routine? All routines need periodic readjustment.

Julia Quinn

#25. I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

Klaus Nomi

#26. Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

Leonard Ravenhill

#27. I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

Gena Rowlands

#28. The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.

Asger Jorn

#29. It feels like I went right from pubescent to senior citizen. But what are you going to do? I'm lucky I caught myself. I might have ended up the only man in the rest home who still thought Jack Kerouac was cool.

Jerry Stahl

#30. Bisexuals are really attracted to senior Lib Dems - as they are both a man and a great big pussy.

Frankie Boyle

#31. I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

Bill Cosby

#33. What kind of authors do you like? I asked, speaking in respectful tones to this man two years my senior.

Haruki Murakami

#34. In my experience, there is a very good reason why a good-looking young woman of around 20 is willing to go out with a man over 15 years her senior - she's nuts.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#35. I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Catherine Ashton