Older I Get The More Quotes

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself. ~ Nancy Friday

I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it's absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I'd learnt that younger - I would have relaxed a bit more. ~ Jessica Brown Findlay

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

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more. ~ Steve Vai

I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before. ~ Jay Baruchel

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

I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write about, and that rule number one of creative writing is you have to have conflict. But if you write about yourself mostly, then if you don't have conflict, then you create it. And the older I get, the more I realize that that's not a very smart way to do this. Not to say I'm the most self destructive person on earth, but it's easy to do. ~ John Fullbright

The older I get, the more I seem to be able to appreciate my "neighbor" (whomever I happen to be with at the moment). Oh, sure, I've always tried to love my neighbor as myself; however, the more experiences I've had, the more chances I've had to see the uniqueness of each person... as well as each tree, and plant, and shell, and cloud... the more I find myself delighting every day in the lavish gifts of God, whom I've come to believe is the greatest appreciator of all. ~ Fred Rogers

Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me. ~ Sufjan Stevens

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become. ~ Nikki Reed

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult. ~ Sylvester Stallone

I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem ... ~ John Geddes

The older I get, the more important my view of the family is. ~ Robert Fogel

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

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration. ~ Gillian Cross

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

I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You'd think we'd be getting better at it. But there's just more and more chaos. The pieces - they're everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that. ~ David Levithan

The older I get, the more I look like my favorite shoes. ~ Dana Gould

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do. ~ Peter Capaldi

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

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

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

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

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother. ~ Sharon Olds

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind. ~ Sylvester Stallone

The older I get, the more things change as to what is important. ~ Tony Gonzalez

The older I get, the more I don't care what people think or what people say. I just do what moves me. ~ Tommy Lee

The older I get, the more my parents just seem like absolute heroes to me ~ Nick Offerman

Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative. ~ Jim Butcher

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story. ~ John Scott

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

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

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

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

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

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance. ~ Kim Weston

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

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability. ~ Jamie Bamber

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

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise. ~ Greg Mortenson

The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it ... ~ James A. Murphy

I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get. ~ Sean Price

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

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. ~ Rufus Wainwright

The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids. ~ Miuccia Prada

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology. ~ H.L. Mencken

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

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy. ~ Christine Baranski

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

I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid. ~ Bill Frisell

Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life and is the key to eternal happiness. ~ L. Tom Perry

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

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

I just try things. And the things I like, sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. You can look at pictures where I just look terrible. But the older I get, the more I know what works. It's for the better. ~ Andre Benjamin

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money. ~ Naveen Andrews

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

The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always ... ~ Peter Ustinov

The older I get, the more apprehensive I become at the thought of losing my virginity. On the one hand, I'm ready to experience what all the fuss is about. It has to be great or it wouldn't be such a huge factor in the lives of all mankind. But that also scares me, because if I end up not liking sex, I'll be a little bit disappointed in mankind as a whole. Because it seems to be the root of a lot of evil, so if it's mediocre and I don't instantly want more of it, I'll feel a little misled by the entire world. ~ Colleen Hoover

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans. ~ Chuck Jones

I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am. ~ K.d. Lang

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

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels. ~ Paul Newman

But the older I get the more I become aware that I was raised thinking that my real value was based on the role I would play for other people. After all, being deemed a good wife or a good mother or daughter is rarely based on how true you are to yourself.

Where I was raised, women are taught that to be a good woman you need to be good for other people. If your kids are happy, then you're a good mom. If your husband is happy, then you're a good wife. All of your value is essentially wrapped up in other people's happiness. How can anyone successfully navigate that for a lifetime?

It's no wonder so many mothers send me notes telling me they've lost themselves. Of course they have! If you live your life to please everyone else, you forget what used to make you YOU. ~ Rachel Hollis

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally. ~ Billy Graham

I swear the older I get, the more I value bad examples over good ones. It's a good thing too, because most people are egotistical, neurotic, self-absorbed peons, insistent on wearing near-sighted glasses in a far-sighted world. And it's this exact sort of myopic ignorance that has led to my groundbreaking new theory. I call it Mim's Theorem of Monkey See Monkey Don't, and what it boils down to is this: it is my belief that there are some people whose sole purpose of existence is to show the rest of how not to act. ~ David Arnold

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

What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the word Art, it's almost like a curse on art. I do know that I want to try to get closer to myself. The older I get, the more indications I have about what it is to get closer to yourself. You try less hard. I just want to be. ~ Joel Meyerowitz

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

The older I get the more grateful I am not to be told how everything comes out. ~ Mavis Gallant

The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself. ~ Paula Patton

The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.'
The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human. ~ David Cannadine

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

I have a hidden wild side, and the older I get the more it comes out. ~ Martie Maguire

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it. ~ Ronnie Corbett

The older I get, the more I feel ~ Sharon Olds

I often tell my students that fiction is about desire in one way or another. The older I get, the more I understand that life is generally the pursuit of desires. We want and want and oh how we want. We hunger. ~ Roxane Gay

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

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

I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it. ~ J. Robbins

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

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

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

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there. ~ Edward De Bono

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color. ~ Joseph Raffael

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that. ~ Vince Gilligan

There's more mystical nonsense written about the process of writing than almost anything. Inspiration, genius, "the muse." So I want to lay out one huge, comforting, wonderful fact: the more you write, the better you get at it. Writing is like a forehand or driving a car or playing guitar. Practice makes you better.

That's not to say inspiration and genius don't exist. Not everyone can become Tolstoy through hard work. What it means is that, wherever you start, you can improve. And the way to do it is to write a lot.

I mentioned at the start of this piece that I've published eight books. When I flip through the first one now, I can't believe it ever made it onto shelves. I see so many flaws and problems in it that I'm amazed. The reason is that I've written hundreds of thousands of words between since then. As long as you produce a little something every day, every week, in time, invisibly, you'll get better. Trailing behind every successful writer are a million words that never saw the light of day. Sometimes it takes five million words. The most important piece of writing advice anyone can give or get is simple, and therefore can seem uninteresting, but it's true: just keep writing. ~ Charles Finch

I've spent my creative life so far first in the theatre, then on the page, then on the screen, examining what is turning out as I grow older to look like one enormous landscape.

What I originally thought were different worlds turn out to be one interconnected place. And like a bedspread viewed by a sick child from his pillow, I am very aware that there are colours in various corners which I know very well, but I haven't yet found the ways to get from the blue to the green and from the green to the red.

I've just begun, and I suppose that's become my preoccupation – the idea that at one point I will see it clearly. ~ Clive Barker

The truth is a thing I get id of as soon as possible! Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club... with the older members. They call it being conceited. Perhaps it is. ~ Oscar Wilde

The feathers have been retired to the London Hard Rock Cafe. I don't obsess about it as much. Also, it's strange - the better physical shape I get in, the less I care about what suit I'm covering myself up in. I'm not really out to flaunt it, but I'm just more comfortable in my own skin. ~ Brandon Flowers

I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact - the more influence you had, the more impact you could create ... The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower. ~ Emerson Spartz

As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start to see the lovely hilarity of life. Things that were once so crushing take on a different essence. I move through it at a faster rate. It's like traveling: it opens my eyes. My process is to allow myself to have it and to not judge myself or the situation too much, and then to create something with it. ~ Rachael Yamagata

In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored. ~ Raymond E. Feist

I think my imagination and my passions are still firing away, but it's really the body that starts to make up the rules. It's not a major problem; it's just when you get a little older you realize how much your body thanks you when you are good to it. ~ Rufus Wainwright

One doesn't want appreciation... one wants response. To tell you the truth, I don't know what I want of you, or of anybody for that matter. I want more than I get, that's all I know. I want you to step out of your skin - I want everybody to strip down, not just to the flesh, but the soul. ~ Henry Miller