Old Quotes

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Old age is a woman's hell.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

I feel like I'm too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.