Octogenarian Quotes

#1. A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

Philip Zaleski

#2. Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

Fernand Leger

#3. whose picture appeared to be a state-issued ID of an octogenarian drag queen. I

Neal Stephenson

#4. You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#5. You needn't try to bully me, young man," said that octogenarian with spirit, "settin' there spoilin' your stomach with them nasty jujubes.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Oliver St. John

#7. Wellness is not the absence of pain ... But the absence of limitation

Pete Egoscue

#8. I was a temp for three years in New York when I was auditioning; when I was cast in 'Mad Men,' I was still a temp. I'm good at making copies; I'm good at typing things. I'm good at killing the day and making it look like I'm doing something.

Rich Sommer

#9. One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

Piper Laurie

#10. All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Epictetus

#11. Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

Larry Craig

#12. Whaddaya want?" growled Viola, our small, surly, octogenarian waitress.
What did I want? A job. A clue. A love.
"Two coffees," Len answered for me.
Coffee would do for now, I guess.

Megan McCafferty

#13. Golfers don't fist fight. They cuss a bit. But they wouldn't punch anything or anybody. They might hurt their hands and have to change their grip.

Dan Jenkins

#14. I'm blowing this harder than an emphysemic octogenarian in front of a birthday cake.

Brea Brown

#15. What I don't want is to be called an octogenarian. I saw 'Octogenarian Jane Gardam' and I thought 'Blow me!' I mean, I am, but that's not the point."

(Inteview, The Guardian, 8 January 2011)

Jane Gardam

#16. The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden.
"The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My
people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn't
much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks
off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent.

Annette Curtis Klause

#17. I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#18. Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

Paullina Simons

#19. This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

Sri Chinmoy

#20. That childhood said to have been mine the difficulty of believing in it the feeling rather of having been born octogenarian at the age when one dies in the dark

Samuel Beckett

#21. It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#22. Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#23. And finally, I understood that real life - with all its ups and downs, complications, broken hearts, and triumphs - was a million times ore satisfying than any fairy tale ever could be.

Talli Roland

#24. Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

Roald Hoffmann