Old Quotes

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.