Old Quotes

That's an old saying I just made up.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.

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

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.