Old Quotes

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.

If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

I'm too old to do things by half.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.