Old Git Quotes

#1. There are evils . . . that men inflict upon one another, such as tyrannical domination of some of them over others. - THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED, III, 2

Joel L. Kraemer

#2. You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

Zora Neale Hurston

#3. But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

Amy Grant

#4. I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

Oliver Harris

#5. Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

Phyllis Diller

#6. He was so gorgeous ... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

Courtney Love

#7. People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

Paul Weller

#8. I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.

Ross Kemp

#9. I look forward to making Miami a media mecca.

Shaquille O'Neal

#10. The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.

Hans Cloos

#11. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.

Bryant McGill

#13. So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

Louis Farrakhan

#14. In the presence of my muse, I no longer NEEDED to draw.

Craig Thompson

#15. I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life ... I can't dispute it.

Bill Bryson

#16. There are no shy women,"announced the count. "The modest way they cast thier eyes down merely his their naivety."
I was fast coming to the conclusion that there was no need to feel afraid of him. He was only a self-satisfied old git who hated women and liked the sound of his own voice.

Kerstin Gier

#17. What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

Hal Clement

#18. Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

Erich Fromm

#19. For a century or more, the "civilized" world regarded as a manifestation of its wealth metal dug from deep in the ground, refined at great labor, and transported great distances to be buried again in elaborate vaults deep under the ground,

Felix Martin

#20. I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.

Marc Almond