Quotes About Old

The media, an entity with the collective attention span of a Twinkie-filled two-year-old, immediately focused on this shiny new toy, kicking the old one under the bed. Carlson

Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all.

So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.

My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre.

I hardly ever watch TV and when I do it's sports. I'll occasionally stick on some old episode of 'Fawlty Towers' or something.

In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite how they're meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

I lived in Miami for a while in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.

For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green in the old countrie.

The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

He's as old as some trees.

The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.

And even if fairies built a nest in the bottom of my garden and it should turn out that I have to live for a thousand years, there's not one of them when I'll be of a mind to trust you.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

To a true collector, the acquisition of an old book is its rebirth," Oscar quoted, absent self-consciousness.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed.

Lesson one: Being a starlet is a complicated life, especially when you're four years old.

He's a cheery old card", grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack. (The General)