Old Quotes

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

I used to go to the supermarket dressed as Peter Pan when I was about five years old.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

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.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.