Quotes About Oldness

#1. Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill ... a corrupter of youth no doubt ...

E. E. Cummings

#2. Keda's oldness was the work of fate, alchemy. An occult agedness. A transparent darkness. A broken and mysterious grove. A tragedy, a glory, a decay. - Titus Groan

Mervyn Peake

#3. The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

T. S. Eliot

#4. Bass Ale's triangle logo was the first registered trademark in the English-speaking world, and today that sturdy oldness is a big part of the brand's appeal.

Christian Rudder

#5. Ronan could feel the size of the mountain under his feet. The oldness of it. Far below there was a heartbeat that wrapped around the world, slower and stronger and more inexorable than Ronan's own

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. I am not dogging on non-melodic pop music because I love it, but I am saying that is why the timeless songs are still here. It's because of the melody. As far as what shouldn't be brought back, the high-waisted bikini bottoms.

Julianne Hough

#7. Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

Anne-Marie Duff

#8. What passes for cookery in England is an abomination.

Virginia Woolf

#9. Liberty is not a right but a duty.

Ezra Pound

#10. Working in water is so difficult. But I liked having something very physical to do - you realize you're strong. It's a really good feeling.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

#11. I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

James McAvoy

#12. When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

James Purefoy

#13. Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.

Prince Philip

#14. I have a thing for things that last.

Criss Jami

#15. I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

Jude Deveraux

#16. If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the 'fact', must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.

John Carroll

#17. It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.

Jane Seymour

#18. You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#19. At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

Jodi Picoult

#20. My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.

Wole Soyinka

#21. All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

Louis MacNeice