Old Quotes

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

If you want to look young and thin hang around old fat people.

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.