- Alongside
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- 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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never gave much thought to anything since I was 22 years old, when I got into the arts, so when Larry David came to my house in 2000, I didn't even think about it - I just thought about showing up on the set.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home I drive an old Land Rover.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even 31 sounds quite old to me, because my brain is probably still in a state of adolescent delinquency.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall.
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like continuity, and the good old cliffhanger every week is something they enjoy. I enjoy it - I don't want to dip into just one episode when I turn on the TV.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?
- Jungle
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first movie I saw when I was a kid was 'The Jungle Book.' I was 5 years old, and I saw it in a movie theater. Seeing that movie really lit the fuse and ignited my passion for animation.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater, and Attack Attack!
- Distinctive
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- Nov 07, 2020
With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020