Old Quotes

I like my R&B, my hip-hop. But I'm old school, I don't like a lot of new stuff. Though I do like a little bit of Meek Mill. He kind of sounds angry when he's rapping so I like that part of the game.

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

The Warrior of the Light never forgets the old saying: The good little goat doesn't bleat.

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5 days later. We also churned our own butter and used our phones for talking.

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

The old men know when an old man dies.

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

I was so desperate to get a job on TV (with no money), that I dressed as an old lady, went to the TV channel and said to security that I was the producer's grandma and had brought him lunch.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

The rest of the guys in Sabbath became boring old farts, and there I was, this crazy guy, still into wrecking hotel rooms and having parties.

And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.

My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.