Old Quotes

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.