Old Quotes

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

It felt like strappy sandals were looking really old lady-ish; really dated and not cool.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.

The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.

They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.

I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.

When young people grow up....they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze.

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood

I'm an old-fashioned theatre major at heart.

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

old folks is the nation.

Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being ignored elsewhere.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.

I would probably keep it old school with The Isley Brothers. Their music relaxes me and I can listen to it all day.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.