You Are Getting Old Quotes

#1. Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Brian Chesky

#2. You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

Will Rogers

#3. But you have to remember, Fran, she's too old to change, but you are getting old enough to understand that.

Stephen King

#4. The first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

Mary Lee Settle

#5. You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Alan King

#6. It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

Emile Coue

#7. The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes - psssh - completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.

Moby

#8. You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#9. You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

Noel Gallagher

#10. Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

Alan Alda

#11. But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers - and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting.

Muriel Siebert

#12. Avery: Yeah right, very funny, when are you going to shoot me and dump my body at captree? This is Getting old.

H.M. Ward

#13. If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards - you are going deeper.

Stormie O'martian

#14. Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It's not getting put through the filter of a television executive who's decided you're too old to justify the expenditure.

Greg Behrendt

#15. Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Malcolm Forbes

#16. I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

Paul McGann

#17. We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That's the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.

Lloyd Jones

#18. One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

Maurice Sendak

#19. Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.

Derrick Rose

#20. So, what do you plan to do with me now? Are we done with the torturing? 'Cause it was getting old,

N.R. Marxsen

#21. You are getting too old for this." "A man is as old as he feels, woman!" "And how old do you feel?" "About ninety.

David Gemmell

#22. You are a virgin," Layla said, sighing. "Think of it as an unavoidable stage of life, like getting
old and toothless and having to drink soup. Unfortunately, men seem to think that women are like new
wine, good only before being uncorked.

Eloisa James

#23. The model of getting the consumer to come to you is old, and the new model is how can you get to the consumer on their terms, in ways they want to engage in. How people are choosing to interface with content is very different. You've got to marry different platforms.

Mindy Grossman

#24. The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#25. I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#26. I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.

Betty Dodson

#27. Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.

Janet Turpin Myers

#28. Can you believe it? Here's a 15-year-old girl pinching pennies to buy strainers and whetstones and tempura pots when all the girls in school are getting huge allowances and buying beautiful dresses and shoes. Don't you feel sorry for me?

Haruki Murakami

#29. You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

David Brenner

#30. I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.

Matt McGorry

#31. Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.

Jimmy Fallon

#32. Sensible men are getting more liberal; they are removing the old landmarks: fall in with the times. Wear your shield, Christian, therefore, close upon your armour, and cry mightily unto God, that by His Spirit you may endure to the end.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#33. About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.

Tom Heinsohn

#34. It's funny, I don't feel any older than I did when I was twenty. But I know I am, because recently some twenty-year-old called me 'sir.' Sometimes the only way you know you are getting older is by the way others treat you.

John Van Epp

#35. The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It's a cocktail and dinner. I know I'm a tired old geezer, but there you are.

Terry Wogan

#36. You don't stop the watch when you are afraid of getting old, so don't cut off advertising when you want to save money."
~Madi Preda

Madi Preda

#37. I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.

Isabella Rossellini

#38. I'm doing the best I can. Getting old, that's what it is. I'll be fifty-three at the feast of Saint Michael. I'm no longer as strong as you are, young sirs,' said the ferryman.

Maurice Druon

#39. No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun - for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax - This won't hurt

Hunter S. Thompson

#40. I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'

Joss Whedon