Old Quotes

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.