Christina Quotes

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

I have been asked how I grow old so easily. The answer is: I give all my time to it.

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

Even my stuntman is old.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Few people know how to be old.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

I am lazy.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

I'm incredibly lazy!

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.