Top 1200 Old Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I was 38 when 'Not Going Out' began, and I was playing a 34-year-old who had a thing about his landlady.

The thing I don't get about paedophilia... Why the hell do kids find old men in dirty raincoats so sexy?

Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

The thing that impressed everyone when he same on the scene as a 17 year old was he already spoke like a man. (on Michael Owen)

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dry as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos.

Most people don't go to work and beat up a 13-year-old. It's a really freaky thing.

Probably the only thing that I really don't like about being an old guy is so many of the people who understand what we know are gone.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

All sorts of things can keep one awake. But as you get older - this is what the stroke thing really brought home to me - this thing that I never paid attention to: my brain. I've always been conscious that, of course, after a night of getting stoned, my head would feel foggy; if I got drunk the night before I'd be hungover. But that was the extent of my concern about my brain. And then with the stroke thing, it made me realize, "God! That's my main source of income." So it relates actually to your other question about growing old.

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.

Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren't horrified at what's happening in the streets?

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

If there's one thing that we need to avoid, all of us - young, old - it's processed, refined sugar. There's nothing good about it.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock n' roll. I watched him, and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing - a beautiful, evil thing.

I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent themselves. I believe the First Edition bookstore will be the next thing. People will read electronically, then decide they want to own that book. The author will then be invited to the old bookstores to sign. I think books will always be with us, but they will fill a different need.

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married.

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

When peaceful reunification comes, the first thing I want to do is to take my 90-year-old mother and go to her home town.

When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.

It's a strange old thing, but I think an awful lot of 'Inbetweeners' fans still don't realise I'm a stand-up.

I'm glad this whole success thing is happening now. I can't even imagine a 23-year-old Leslie in this position.

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

Old people can make me cry. I worry about getting old, and old people inspire me to live life to the full.

I could go old-school; I listen to a lot of old-school music, like Teddy Pendergrass, the Temptations, people like that. I'm an old-school dude, and I'm vibin' with stuff like that to clear my mind. I like listening to that old-school music.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

It's the maddest thing, watching old shows, like getting your family album out and flicking through.

The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

I think the thing that is most influential about 'Haxan' is the casting of the witches as just old women and the strength of that.

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

My son, who is 7, he passed a car in a parking lot that was probably a 1998 model, and he said, 'Wow, Dad, look at that old car.' I was looking around for an old car, and I realized that my old car maybe stops at 1965.