Old Quotes

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

The best mirror is an old friend.

I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care.

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

I just really want to continue on the same intensity of work ethic, I don't want to slow now. I'm 21-year's old and I feel like this era and a few years to come are my prime years, so I want to utilise them.

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.