The Old Quotes

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

I like old school horror movies like Exorcist. I always loved scaring myself and I don't know at all what that's about.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

I am a bit old-school.

Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around.

What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.

Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]

Quite like old times,' the room says.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise your game up to that.

In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.

old age' is always ten years more than we are.

Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.

My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on.

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

I'm kind of an old-fashioned guy.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

If you ever heard that old saying, where there's smoke there's fire; well that's a load of bull.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us from being genius's to not feeling great about ourselves by having doubts, fears and anxieties.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.