And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.
Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.
Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.
I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them.
I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed.
By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.
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.
It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it.
This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.
I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.'
All diseases run into one, old age.
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time. I mean, Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?' My hero.
