Old Quotes

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.

I'm 29 years old and, sure, I'm looking to find a wife.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

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.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.

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.