timeless appearance Quotes

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.

The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.

He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

I think a lot of directors over the years have cast me because they see something of another generation in me: you know, certain people look like they've come from the 19th century. Because I have classical background I suppose that is more suitable to patriarchal roles and easily infuses them.