- Nov 07, 2020
Old Quotes
Old age, old habits, and old traditions worth keeping.
This set uses 'old' loosely, from feeling worn down by constant criticism in a creative career to impatience with distractions that don't matter anymore. For quotes centered on the number itself, see Age quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
- Hay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I signed on and went and did 'Catching Fire,' the majority of it was done in Atlanta for rebate reasons. Luckily, that worked because there's forest. There's old rail stations and factories and lots of stuff we can use and sound stages. For the tropical stuff, we went to Hawaii.
- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 10 years old when the Northridge quake happened, and I lived right in the area, so it was a traumatic thing for me. I'd never had anything like that happen before. It's always stuck with me.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrestled at the Staples Centre at 'Monday Night Raw' when I was 21 years old.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020