Old Quotes

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.