Old Quotes

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Old friends are best.

Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.