Old Quotes

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

That's an old saying I just made up.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.