You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
~By Paul Newman ~
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
~By Sai Baba ~
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
~By Sam Snead ~
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
~By Sallust ~
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
~By Ludovico Ariosto ~
I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.
~By Paul Westerberg ~
Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
~By Irving Berlin ~
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
~By Howard Aiken ~
I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.
~By Jensen Ackles ~
No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
~By Calvin Klein ~
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
~By John Updike ~
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
~By R. Lee Ermey ~
And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.
~By Frederick Henry Hedge ~
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.
~By Leo Baekeland ~
Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?
~By Mark Thomas ~
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
~By Reynolds Price ~
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
~By Billy Joel ~
Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
~By Sandra Bullock ~
We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.
~By Hal Sutton ~
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell.
~By Mort Kondracke ~
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~By William Penn ~
I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.
~By Kim Campbell ~
I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.
~By Kent Conrad ~
You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.
~By Meg Whitman ~
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
~By Francesca Annis ~
An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.
~By Glenn Ford ~
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
~By David Suzuki ~
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
~By Jean Stafford ~
Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
~By Gary Gygax ~
I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.
~By Boz Scaggs ~
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.
~By Peter Jennings ~
As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.
~By Joss Whedon ~
That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
~By Richard Schickel ~
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
~By Irene Mayer Selznick ~
Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.
~By Isabella Bird ~
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
~By Franklin P. Adams ~
Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.
~By Bo Jackson ~
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
~By Walt Whitman ~
I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.
~By Steve Burns ~
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
~By Alberto Giacometti ~
If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
~By Harrison Ford ~
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
~By Horace Walpole ~
Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.
~By Joe Shuster ~
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
~By John Barton ~
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.
~By Janet Jackson ~
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
~By Dylan Thomas ~
I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.
~By Andre Agassi ~
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
~By Florence Henderson ~
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
~By Bette Davis ~
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
~By Spike Milligan ~
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
~By Peter Warlock ~
Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.
~By Christine Keeler ~
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
Who told you I was a musician?
~By Leon Redbone ~
Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.
~By Tyra Banks ~
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.
~By Meriwether Lewis ~
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
~By Chief Joseph ~
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
~By Edward Lear ~
I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.
~By Max von Sydow ~
It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.
~By Henry L. Stimson ~
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'
~By Chris Matthews ~
Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
~By Anna Seward ~
The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
~By William Falconer ~
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
~By David Attenborough ~
Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
~By Rufus Wainwright ~
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
~By Josef Albers ~
I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders.
~By Susan Smith ~
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican.
~By Robert Teeter ~
I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
~By Michel Legrand ~
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an "old" young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
~By Bob Woodward ~
Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.
~By Leo Kottke ~
I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.'
~By Phil Simms ~
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