Old Quotes

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I would have liked the old days.

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

Old age is a shipwreck.

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.

From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.

In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.