#age

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger. ↗

— Cher

#growing-older #men #music #rock-music #women

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#wisdom #age

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol. ↗

— John Forsythe

#advanced age #age #amusing #become #rather

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cases #checked #desired #encouraged #flow

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #dub #enough

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#age #been #between #classical #considerable

I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing. ↗

— Samantha Fox

#consider #detracts #i #image #me

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do. ↗

— Samantha Fox

#image #other #people #problem #who