Old Quotes

I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.