AtomicQuote

Michael Marshall Smith Quote

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

Michael Marshall Smith

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

Tags: growing older, nostalgia

Related Quotes

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Tags: age, best, archeology, growing older, marriage, companionship, woman, husband

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

Barbara Delinsky

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

Tags: aging, blueprints, change, growing older

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

T.K. Naliaka

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

Tags: growing older, wisdom in fiction, writing, writing life

How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a seco...

Joseph Heller

How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a seco...

Tags: ageing, catch 22, growing old, growing older, growing up

I am thirty-five years old, and it seems to me that I have arrived at the age of grief. Others arrive there sooner. Almost no one arrives much later. I don’t think it is years themselves, or the disin...

Jane Smiley

I am thirty-five years old, and it seems to me that I have arrived at the age of grief. Others arrive there sooner. Almost no one arrives much later. I don’t think it is years themselves, or the disin...

Tags: grief, growing older

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Tags: growing older, humor, napping, politics

I don’t ever remember being afraid of oldness.There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull all-nighters and keep working and working well; and being smiled at by girls I d...

Neil Gaiman

I don’t ever remember being afraid of oldness.There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull all-nighters and keep working and working well; and being smiled at by girls I d...

Tags: growing older, inspirational

Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger.

Debasish Mridha

Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger.

Tags: debasish mridha, debasish mridha md, getting younger, growing older, inspirational, love, philosophy, wings of love, young and old

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

James Lee Burke

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

Tags: aging, growing older, passage of time, tempus fugit

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Tags: life, wisdom, growing older, life experience
About Michael Marshall Smith

Michael Paul Marshall Smith (born 3 May 1965) is an English novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall, M. M. Smith and Michael Rutger.