Anne Bishop Quotes

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

There are creative benefits to getting older.

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

As you get older, you find that everything looks better more natural!

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

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

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.