Old Quotes

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.