I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
I had been, to the age of 25, a bookworm.
Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.
In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another.
There is nothing more notable in than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, and I listened.
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?
Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.
That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same old wheels.
In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.
Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a str...
When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.
I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't...
For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circumstances. Indeed, it might be one of the most difficult accomplishments in the world.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.
