Old Quotes

I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

When we think of memetic culture, it is the sausage factory of the old days.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

As the old saying goes, for somebody as famous as you, you don't need any introduction.

You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much!

And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It's quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

The whole idea of re-releasing old movies does bother me a little bit. If they're going to re-release an old movie, I should be able to get in with my old ticket.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I live here?'

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

Ginny's Little Longhorn is my favorite place to play and hang because it's close to old school beer joint music venue as you'll ever find. The Continental Club is also in the top as well.