Oap Sayings

#1. Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

Julie Walters

#2. Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

Alexander Graham Bell

#3. The poor soul would have been 100 - if he'd lived another twelve years. Apparently he asked to be scattered over the place where he spent his happiest moments - but Bridget wasn't keen no having ash all over her duvet.

Bridget Golightly

#4. Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#5. Bridget was so excited to see the giant Colin Firth statue, she almost had a stroke. But she couldn't quite reach.

Bridget Golightly

#6. Another thing I noticed was how quickly the human brain paired causal events. "A" leads to "B." We love to make that link, however tenuous.

Hugh Howey

#7. My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter.

Naomi Campbell

#8. Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.

Ibn Warraq

#9. Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

Karl Kraus

#10. Bridget reckons John Lennon wrote a song about her. I'm guessing it was 'Give Peace a Chance'.

Bridget Golightly

#11. Bridget -
I like my tea like I like my men. Strong, sweet and dark.

Joan -
I like my tea like I like my men too. Still warm.

Bridget Golightly

#12. I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

Nadine Gordimer

#13. In 1974, we began franchising. We didn't have any big thought process except that, 'OK, franchising will help us get to our goal of 32 stores and help us run stores farther away from home.'

Fred DeLuca

#14. I was the problem and the solution.

Abby Norman

#15. I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

A.E. Samaan

#16. * Get one of those marvellous pink rabbit hand blenders. Like the ones I've seen on the late-night shopping channel.

Bridget Golightly