A Quote by Edith Piaf

I don't want to die an old lady.

Edith Piaf

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Die Lady Old Old Lady Want

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Edith Piaf
French - Musician
December 19, 1915 - October 10, 1963

I'm going to die very soon. Before my 21st birthday. I won't live to be 21. I'm never going to be old. I don't ever want to be ugly and old. I'm an old lady now anyhow. I'm 80. There's nothing left. I've already lived a whole lifetime. I'm going out. In a blaze of glory.

Nancy Spungen

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Tina Fey

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed.

Zadie Smith

I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.

Ginnifer Goodwin

When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

Kirsten Dunst

It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

Henry Cuyler Bunner

I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

Lulu

I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.

Ruth Rendell

... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Snap. Lady with dog. Lady on sofa half-naked. Snap. Naked lady. Lady next to dresser. Lady at window. Snap. Lady on balcony sunlight. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)

Michael Ondaatje

I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!'

Ava DuVernay

What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.

Leonora Carrington

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

Maude Royden

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.