The Old Quotes

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

No lie ever reaches old age.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

I have a thing for things that last.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

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.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.

There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.

This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

Nature abhors the old.

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.