Old Quotes

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.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

Shawn Michaels is a born-again Christian, but inside he's the same old Shawn Michaels. He hasn't changed a bit.

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.