Top 100 The Older I Get The More Quotes
#1. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Jane Wiedlin
#2. The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.
Matthew Lillard
#4. The older I get, the more I'm drawn to the smaller films, but I still hope to keep bigger films in my repertoire. It's just maybe going to be a shift in focus, but I'll definitely still hopefully be kicking around in those.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#5. The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
Simon Schama
#6. My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.
Hines Ward
#7. The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen ...
Maud Hart Lovelace
#8. My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
Richard Rogers
#9. I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#10. The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really believe in keeping your canvas very basic and sort of adding the accouterments from there. I look at creating intrigue with outfits through accessories.
Erin Wasson
#11. I feel like most horror films are made for teenagers about teenagers. I've done a couple of those horror films. There's nothing wrong with that but the older I get the more I starve for more adult material.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#12. The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life.
Auliq Ice
#13. The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
Vince Gilligan
#14. The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Malcolm Gladwell
#15. The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
Nancy Friday
#16. I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.
Henry Rollins
#17. The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it ...
James A. Murphy
#18. The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. ... We can't change other people, and we can't force them to see us the way we would like to be seen.
Mari Serebrov
#19. No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
Patrice Leconte
#20. The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.
John Corapi
#22. The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
Christine Baranski
#23. The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.
Andrew Davies
#24. I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.
Nikki Reed
#25. The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
K.d. Lang
#26. It's hardly wisdom, but the older I get the more I believe that our lives are built not out of time, but light. The problem is that the images that so often return to me are seldom those I want.
Colum McCann
#27. I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.
Roxane Gay
#28. When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.
Brandi Carlile
#29. The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#30. The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.
Dorothy Day
#31. I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.
Kim Weston
#32. The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
Mark Twain
#33. The older I get the more grateful I am not to be told how everything comes out.
Mavis Gallant
#34. The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#35. The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
Fred Rogers
#36. It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.
Rufus Wainwright
#37. The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
Lillian Gish
#38. The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.
Naveen Andrews
#39. The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.
Yolanda Adams
#40. The older I get, the more I realize what a gift a true friend is. Especially since my mom can't make me return those.
Tyler Oakley
#41. The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.
Steven Spielberg
#42. The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
Chuck Jones
#43. The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.
Sharon Olds
#44. The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
Sharon Olds
#45. The older I get the more I feel this is true, "There's a loving mystery at the heart of the universe, just yearning to be expressed." Mr. Rogers/Quoted in I AM SO PROUD OF YOU
Tim Madigan
#46. The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.
Ingrid Michaelson
#47. I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.
Ethan Hawke
#48. The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
Ted Demme
#49. I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.
Paula Cole
#50. The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.
Tony Gonzalez
#51. I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem ...
John Geddes
#52. The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.
Ethan Hawke
#53. The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.
Ben Daniels
#54. The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.
Greg Mortenson
#55. The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.
Jamie Bamber
#56. I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.
Bill Frisell
#57. You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.
Jessica Raine
#58. The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.
Brittany Murphy
#59. The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always ...
Peter Ustinov
#60. The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.
Paul Hoffman
#61. I have a hidden wild side, and the older I get the more it comes out.
Martie Maguire
#62. I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things.
Sam Bush
#63. Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.
Dolly Parton
#64. The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.
Robert Fogel
#65. The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#66. I'm not perfect and the older I get the more I realise that.
Graham Speechley
#67. The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.
Alex Witchel
#68. The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
H.L. Mencken
#69. The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#71. The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.
T. Boone Pickens
#72. I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
Marc Almond
#73. The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
John Scott
#74. You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.
Beyonce Knowles
#75. I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
Ringo Starr
#76. Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine.
Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
David Levithan
#77. The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.
Walter Isaacson
#78. The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?
Sandra Cisneros
#79. As far as kids go, at an early age they have to develop a sense of individuality. It's just something that everyone goes through. But I think the older I get, the more I appreciate the fact that we really are just so connected.
Toni Collette
#80. The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
Paula Cole
#81. It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.
Ronnie Corbett
#82. If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#83. The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.
Gloria Steinem
#84. The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can't stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually.
James Badge Dale
#85. The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. What I know is that what other people do doesn't really have any effect on me.
Oprah Winfrey
#86. The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.
Paula Patton
#88. Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.
Martin Donovan
#89. The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
Edward De Bono
#90. The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.
Scott Foley
#91. The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.
Gillian Cross
#92. I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.
Sean Price
#93. The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.
Nick Cave
#94. The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.
Doris Lessing
#95. The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'
Michelle Gomez
#96. I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.
J. Robbins
#97. The older I get, the more I look like my favorite shoes.
Dana Gould
#98. At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.
Janis Ian
#99. It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
Paul Newman
#100. I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.
Michael Kors
