Top 100 My Old Quotes
#1. My old black cat, he passed away this morning. He never knew what a heartache was. Woke up late and he danced till noon. If questioned why, answered just because. He never spoke much, preferring silence. Eight lost lives was all he had.
Ian Anderson
#2. Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.
Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.
Joyce Cary
#3. Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.
John Zakour
#4. I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.
Bill Orcutt
#5. I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
Mick Jagger
#6. Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.
Jason Alexander
#7. Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.
Deion Sanders
#8. When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.
Edward Abbey
#9. I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.
Criss Jami
#10. There's so much to write. Where should I start?
I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:
'You should start where you are
Ruth Ozeki
#11. Yep. There's a lie on the wall of my old elementary school that only my Granddaddy and me know about... And I'm okay with that.
Sean Patrick Flanery
#12. The moment I drove away in September I felt like someone was following our car with an eraser, rubbing out my old life.
Samantha Schutz
#13. My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.
Karen Joy Fowler
#14. With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.
Rodney Dangerfield
#15. My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
Og Mandino
#16. Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.
Leo Tolstoy
#17. I got my windshield replaced for no apparent reason. So now I have a new windshield that looks exactly like my old one, only cleaner.
Jarod Kintz
#18. I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.
Jim Gaffigan
#19. I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.
Juicy J
#20. I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Iain Banks
#21. As I live I must die daily My old nature I must kill
Robert Greene
#22. I sometimes daydream about becoming somebody else. Anybody else. Not me. I imagine how I might lose myself, my old self.
James Preller
#23. I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'
Barry Goldwater
#24. I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.
Steve Gleason
#25. I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.
Tony Visconti
#26. I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs ...
Juelz Santana
#27. How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time ...
Claude Levi-Strauss
#28. I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.
William T. Vollmann
#29. I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.
Gordon Parks
#30. I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.
Walter Kirn
#31. I dreamt
marvellous error!
that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
Antonio Machado
#32. The importance of my old life is dimming as I move toward the bright light I've seen once before. It's allowing me to come to it, and this time, I won't be sent back. If only the people I'm leaving behind could understand! There is no sadness where I'm going. Only joy.
Lurlene McDaniel
#33. Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
Daniel Boone
#34. Who's this - alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I - It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most - we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.
Siegfried Sassoon
#35. My old school hip-hop would probably consist of Bad N-Fluenz, The Dangerous Crew, Seagrams, Mr. ILL, RBL Posse, Rappin' 4-Tay.
Marshawn Lynch
#36. The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.
Billy Corgan
#37. My old love, my new
Unlike wine, it's not better
Fresh blood is so sweet
Debby Feo
#38. I don't want to live here. I want my old life back and I'll do anything for it.
M.M. Lindelo
#39. I take my old seat by the window and start rapidly boozing. The lights change colors in ways that suggest I'm going too fast, and that is the speed I want to go.
Alissa Nutting
#40. I was a big light heavyweight but I feel perfect at heavyweight. When I look back at some of my old fights, I was really just a shell of myself. Now I'm healthy and strong and ready to get to the top.
Antonio Tarver
#41. Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.
Orhan Pamuk
#42. Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow
and torment me.
Sylvia Plath
#43. 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#44. My old lady wouldn't like me putting a dead chick under our house. She's real particular about smells.
Bijou Hunter
#45. They sounded a lot like me and my old girlfriend Loretta, but I swore to myself that I would stop thinking about her ass, even though every Cleopatra-looking Latina in the city made me stop and wish she would come back to me.
Junot Diaz
#46. I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong.
That's not totally true ... I know I belong with Alex.
Lauren Oliver
#47. I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.
Jane Austen
#48. What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?
Helene Hanff
#49. I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
Gary Kemp
#50. Earlier today I shot my old partner, a friend of mine, because he tried to stop me from doing what I have to do. Don't think for a second that I won't do that to you.
Jack Bauer
#51. my old world is feeling more and more like a ghost. You know how a dream feels the farther you get from it? It loses its color and intensity and logic. Your emotional connection to it fades.
Blake Crouch
#52. I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.
Ice-T
#53. And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy.
Pablo Neruda
#54. I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.
Graham Parker
#55. I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee.
Lisa Renee Jones
#56. The few weeks I have had at my disposal have not given me the chance to revive and to work through my old memories in such a way that I might offer you a solid introduction into the psychic life of Indians.
Aby Warburg
#57. I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger chance than I would have if I stayed in the car and burned to death. Hell's bells, what I wouldn't give to have my shield bracelet. Or my old staff. I didn't even have an umbrella.
Jim Butcher
#58. If I want to hand one of my old shotguns that I've had for 50 years to my grandkid one day, I have to go through a federal transfer? It's crazy.
Donald Trump Jr.
#59. Now that all the beauty of my old life is gone, I crave it like good. A beautiful thing like this rose: I almost want to eat it, to swallow it whole to replace the beauty I've lost.
Alex Flinn
#60. The inclusiveness of the Drama League luncheon is one of the most exciting things about it. I get to see old friends and meet new friends. Of course I can't tell who anybody is if they're under the age of 75. So my old friends become my new friends.
James Earl Jones
#61. Dontcha mean you wanna get your eyes all over your girl, what's it been, an hour since ya seen her? Ah, can't beat young love, son. Enjoy it while it lasts, then they all turn into my old lady with the nagging. But..I still get a boner every time I see my Helen.
V. Theia
#62. My old man tells me every chance he gets I'm "style over substance" and that I've never done anything of value in my life. I'm fifteen. What does he expect? Being "cool as" is the only thing anyone cares about."
Burt, Book 1 "Making it
Jamie Scallion
#64. These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady
Chamillionaire
#65. And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
Mark Twain
#66. I want you to be my old lady, babe. That's all I have to offer. I'm a Reaper, and this is my world. You wear my patch, you be my woman and I'll be your man. We take the good times together and fight through the bad times. No games. That's everything I've got and it's all yours if you'll take it.
Joanna Wylde
#67. My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways.
S.A. Tawks
#68. I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#69. This rootless shifting east and west
I can't suppress a smile myself
but how else can I make
the whole world my home.
If any of my old friends
come around asking
say I'm down at the river
by the Second Fushimi Bridge.
Baisao
#70. I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.
Angus King
#71. Suck it, Entropy. We have an appointment, my old friend, but not today.
Colson Whitehead
#72. I cut a rap song once. It was a few years ago for my old show 'Buck Commander,' and it was a song called 'You're Short.' It was about my camera guy. We shot the video in Las Vegas, 'Ocean's Eleven' style!
Willie Robertson
#73. If only I could fall
sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!
Haruki Murakami
#74. Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
John Irving
#75. The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I'm looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.
Mark Philippoussis
#76. Besides, my old opinions - at least, the greater part of them - are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#77. MY OLD HEART was broken. It'd been replaced with something not of flesh and blood but diamond and immortality.
Pepper Winters
#78. In a while the organism will repair itself, and I, the ghost within it, will be my old self again. But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float toward his end.
J.M. Coetzee
#79. I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age.
Grete Waitz
#80. Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
Bjork
#81. What you see is my old shell; inside it's all changed. You can't share my life.
R.K. Narayan
#82. My old tutor used to say that the hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed
Cassandra Clare
#83. I never thought I would be doing something with television. It changes just in the fact that you walk outside and watch your step and not trust too willingly. Other than that I have stayed true to myself, kept my old friends, and the whole good deal.
Whitney Port
#84. Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.
Bear McCreary
#85. To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.
Henry Winkler
#86. My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Clint Eastwood
#87. Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
Tamora Pierce
#88. I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.
Chris O'Donnell
#89. My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
Paul McCartney
#90. In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.
Bill Cosby
#91. There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Miguel De Cervantes
#92. I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
Kate Bush
#93. My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
John Irving
#94. I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.
Patricia McConnell
#95. I'd like to sing you a song now about my old girlfriend. It's called "They'll Find Her When the Leaves Blow Away 'Cause I'm Not Raking 'Til Spring."
Steven Wright
#97. I have no intention of inflicting all my childhood memories on anyone. Far less do I want to excoriate my old teachers who, in their bungling, unforgettable way, exposed me to the natural world, a world covered in chitin, where implacable realities hold sway.
Annie Dillard
#98. The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in the dark under the oaks, hands at my sides, and watch and wait.
Walker Percy
#99. At Cuo, everyone will stare at me. And even though I know I'm not ugly any more I'm afraid to have them all look at me. They'll be thinking about my old face and comparing it to my new one. I don't want to be the old San-xiang anymore.
Maureen F. McHugh
#100. You know the funny thing about the end of the world, my old friend? We always talk about it as if it hasn't happened already. Because of course the world has ended many times. And when it ends for some people, other people report it in the papers or on TV as a new beginning.
Bee Ridgway
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