Top 100 Very Old Quotes
#1. I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.
Marianne Wiggins
#2. I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#3. The new idea is here: Control is very old-fashioned, and our societies will change gradually as people come to see that the old system just doesn't work. I
Stuart Wilde
#4. I had a very old woman come up to me on the subway and tell me that the faces that I made in the first episode when a guy is going down on me, that she still makes those faces when her husband goes down on her.
Zosia Mamet
#5. Dear little Bog-Face,
Why are you so cold?
And why do you lie with your eyes shut?
You are not very old.
I am a Child of this World
And a Child of Grace,
And Mother, I shall be glad when it is over,
I am Bog-Face.
Stevie Smith
#6. She was a very old lady indeed, or at least she looked it. She leaned on a hawthorn stick, enveloped in garments she must have
Diana Gabaldon
#7. There are cities that have no ... I don't know what to call it, an identity perhaps. A sense of being someplace different. Lots of those in the Empire. Very old cities with lots of history, but one day is much like the next.
Raymond E. Feist
#8. The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.
George Herbert
#9. Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.
Jack Benny
#10. Ask yourself one question. It is the question that only a very old man asks: Does this path have a heart? One path makes for a joyful journey. The other path will make you curse your life. - Carlos Castaneda,
Jeff Nixa
#11. That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.
John Deacon
#13. Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.
Gore Vidal
#14. Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
Margaret Mead
#15. It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.
Jon Steele
#16. Yes, you're very very old
But try to think of it as not being cursed
After all, in a hostage situation
You'd be released first!
John Walter Bratton
#17. I was very stale at Fox. Much of it was my own fault. I was lazy and didn't fight for things I wanted to do at other times. Most of my stuff consisted of setup/punchline jokes to the camera - a very old-school approach. I was part of the establishment, I guess.
Frank Caliendo
#18. Fuckyou-ish?" "The English dialect of the ancient language 'fuckyou.' Very old. Dignified even.
Celia Kyle
#19. At the end Nora swayed in my arms to something slow and very old, after being convinced that, yes, this is how we slow-dance behind Punk lines, and no, I'm not telling you that just so I can hold you.
Lia Habel
#20. The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.
Alan Alda
#21. Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
Bassem Youssef
#22. One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.
Astrid Berges-Frisbey
#23. I naturally own a lot of very old magazines. And I enjoy going to old magazines because the advertisements in those magazines tended to have thousands of words of copy in them.
John Hodgman
#24. Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
Malorie Blackman
#25. The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
Hunter S. Thompson
#26. Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
Neve Campbell
#27. It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.
Geraldine Brooks
#28. The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.
Walter Bagehot
#29. He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
Anthony Trollope
#30. The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
Barbara Corcoran
#31. I always have this strange feeling that I am this very old woman laying down about to die. You know, that my life is just her memories, or something.
Celine
#32. In some ways the experience of these young men paralleled the experience of the very old. They looked back on intense memories and felt lonely because there was nobody left alive who'd been there.
Pat Barker
#33. Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere ... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#34. The dynamic range of the digital camera is pretty crappy compared to film, but now film is not great because the labs have closed. It's going to hurt a lot of the movies that we did in this gap because I think they are going to look very old very soon.
Emmanuel Lubezki
#35. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.
Richard Adams
#36. If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!
John Green
#37. I see no human beings. My phone never rings. I'm so very old and so very lonely. I hear from no one.
Harold Sala
#38. The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.
Stephen Hawking
#39. I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.
Alan Arkin
#40. I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.
Willow Bay
#41. I think that I'm very old fashioned in terms of my film references and what appeals to me, in a way with camera moves and a depth of color to bring things to it.
Ashley Greene
#42. There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett
#43. That's why I think that cultivation, 'becoming a real human being,' really is the primary leadership issue of our time, but on a scale never required before. It's a very old idea that may actually hold the key to a new age of 'global democracy.
Peter M. Senge
#44. If you've ever stood in the presence of a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera and not gotten a tingly sensation in your naughty bits, you have to be very young, very old, or completely fucking blind.
C.J. Roberts
#45. Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#46. The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.
Nora Roberts
#47. Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl S. Buck
#48. The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.
Calvin Coolidge
#49. I am not sure that digging in our past guilts is a useful occupation for the very old, given that one can do so little about them. I have reached a stage at which one hopes to be forgiven for concentrating on how to get through the present.
Diana Athill
#50. In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves ... the very young and the very old.
Mike Rounds
#51. The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.
Deepak Chopra
#52. We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots.
Colin Cooper
#53. Decency" is a very old-fashioned word that conjures up a standard of behavior that has largely disappeared from the world.
Amazon Digital Services
#55. Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
#56. Robin Goodfellow is a very old faerie. Not only that, he has ballads, poems, and stories written about him, so he is very near immortal, as long as humans remember them. Not to say he is immune to iron and technology-far from it. Puck is strong, but even he cannot resist the effects.
Julie Kagawa
#57. Certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
Erica Jong
#58. Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.
Herman Melville
#59. Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'
Eric Whitacre
#60. If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#61. She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest.
Neil Gaiman
#63. Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
Terry Pratchett
#64. You'll have your heart cut out with a grapefruit knife; love does that. You won't have a chance against me until you're very old, if then.
Charles Baxter
#65. We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#66. When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.
Pierre De Ronsard
#67. Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
Bo Burnham
#68. In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.
David Allen
#69. People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.
Craig Ferguson
#70. Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly, 'Anyway, not enough to be put away.
Gerald Durrell
#71. The World is a very old place, so you'll never be able to tell a completely original story
Wally Lamb
#72. It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.
Suzanne Collins
#73. Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'
Kate Atkinson
#74. We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ... why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.
James Rosenquist
#75. African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.
Miriam Makeba
#76. The new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world.
Padgett Powell
#77. Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise - which showed how young she was.
L.M. Montgomery
#78. I have tried ... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.
Dylan Moran
#79. That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello! magazine.
Edward St. Aubyn
#80. We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.
Gene Wolfe
#81. For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
Marc Almond
#82. I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.
Paullina Simons
#83. Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a very experienced businessman who made every mistake in the book and can recognise one when I see one.
John Harvey-Jones
#84. THE BARN was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell - as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world.
E.B. White
#85. I always secretly loved the art of makeup as a child. I would come up with stories and characters and try on my mom's Maybelline eyeliner when she wasn't home. It was a very old-school pencil - you had to burn the tip to make it smudgy enough to use.
Michelle Phan
#86. I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.
Woody Allen
#87. Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old ...
- Wang Lung
Pearl S. Buck
#88. All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
Faith Prince
#89. But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
Ernest Hemingway,
#90. Besides... I'm very old and I can't remember things too well anymore. When my letters come back to me, it makes me feel like my wife still remembers me.
Inio Asano
#91. There was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open, just as if he had been invited. "I see they have begun to arrive already," he said when he caught sight of
J.R.R. Tolkien
#92. In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
John C. Hawkes
#93. I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. It's either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple
Neil Simon
#94. We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.
Stephen Baxter
#95. The very old, he thought, make our past. Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have any real existence.
P.D. James
#96. To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn't think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Aaron Siskind
#98. I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.
Charlie Watts
#99. Sure, kid. Look, there's a very old saying in my family: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is another wizard fucking with you.
Scott Lynch
#100. The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
Brett Dennen
