“The benefit of appearing so young is I’m constantly underestimated”— Maria V. Snyder Related Quotes “A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.’”– Claude Pepper “Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.”– Michelle Malkin “In 1829 Rossini was at an age which has often proven critical in the lives of musicians, painters and writers. Lapses into silence far more complete than Rossini’s, creative failures, suicides, and unanticipated deaths have been common in the middle to late 30s. As Charles Rosen has noted, ‘It is the age when the most fluent composer begins to lose the ease of inspiration he once possessed, when even Mozart had to make sketches and to revise’.”— Richard Osborne