Old Quotes

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.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Education is the best provision for old age.

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.