Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

Ed Tom Bell: But I think once you quit hearing "sir" and "ma'am," the rest is soon to foller.

No Country for Old Men

Llewelyn Moss: [after finding the drug crime scene] ... Where's the last guy? Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one.

No Country for Old Men

Desert Aire Manager: Did you not hear me? I can't give out no intformation regarding our residents.

No Country for Old Men

Pat Wheeler: A game-legged old man and a drunk. That's all you got? John T. Chance: That's WHAT I got.

Rio Bravo

The Old Man: Old Detroit has a cancer. The cancer is crime, and it must be cut out before we employ the two million workers that will breathe life into this city again.

RoboCop

Yellow Bastard: [referring to 19-year-old Nancy] A little old for my taste, but I can forgive that just this once!

Sin City

Pat: How old are you? Tiffany: Old enough to have a marriage end and not wind up in a mental hospital.

Silver Linings Playbook

Rooster Cogburn: I'm a foolish old man who's been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpie in trousers and a nincompoop.

True Grit

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

A. E. van Vogt

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.

Tammy Faye Bakker

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

Boris Becker

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Tryon Edwards

Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

Edward Herrmann

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

Jack White

Lt. Rooney: Who are you? What's your name? Mortimer Brewster: Well, usually I'm Mortimer Brewster, but I'm not quite myself today.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Teddy Brewster: [His first line] I must be catching cold. Abby Brewster: No, dear, it was Reverend Harper who sneezed.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Cab Driver: Hey, you! Five more bucks and you'll own it! Mortimer Brewster: Oh, no thanks! It wouldn't fit me!

Arsenic and Old Lace

Cab Driver: I knew this would end up in the nuthouse. Mr. Witherspoon: [offended] We like to think of it as a rest home!

Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster: You didn't want the reverend to see the body? Aunt Abby: Well, not at tea. That wouldn't have been very nice.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Jonathan Brewster: I'll get every one of you! I hate cops! I'll brain the first one that comes near me!

Arsenic and Old Lace