Old Quotes

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

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

I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.