Mark Noble Quotes

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

I always hung out with older people. I would be the youngest out of the crew.

When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.

I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

If you want to be with someone who is 15 or 20 years younger, that's fine, but I've found that if you haven't been knocked down a little bit, then you're probably not going to be hanging with me too much.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.

My dad is 20 years older than my mom. Growing up, I felt like he knew everything. I felt like, for every question I had, he had an answer.

There was imbalance with my first husband just by the given of our 29-year age difference and the difficulty of me being this unformed, enthusiastic young woman and he already completely in place being the leader of the country.