Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.

Christina Hendricks

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.

Judy Greer

[singing] Mortimer Brewster: There is a Happydale, far, far away...

Arsenic and Old Lace

Teddy Brewster: [to Mr. Witherspoon] Mr. Witherfork. Mr. Witherspoon: "Spoon".

Arsenic and Old Lace

Teddy Brewster: A *secret* proclamation? How unusual.

Arsenic and Old Lace

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Ruby Wax

I've become very leery of jumping on bandwagons in my old age.

Love

I've become really leery of jumping on bandwagons in my old age.

Love

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

Jennifer O'Neill

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

Paul Feig

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell because to my mind heaven like life must be a thing sensual and real. And my book will ...

History of the Rain

Rachel Lapp: [Book and Carter are driving around a rough neighborhood looking for a suspect that fits Samuel's description, with Rachel and Samuel in tow] Where are you taking us? John Book: I'm sorry... we're looking for a suspect in the area, we'd ...

Witness

RIDE A WHITE SWAN" "Ride it on out like a bird in the skyway, Ride it on out like you were a bird, Fly it all out like an eagle in a sunbeam, Ride it all out like you were a bird. Wear a tall hat like the druid in the old days Wear a tall hat and a T...

Marc Bolan Lyric Book

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, w...

Alone: The Second World War (Condensed) Series, Book 2

Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less previous in the bargain. I don't want to confuse artistic and commercial value, but it's just a fact that some kid who rips an album for free isn't going to give it the same at...

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren't any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession's glutted with tenured old men who won't step aside for...

Little Children

[Brody sees his son sitting in a small skiff, and yells for him to get out of it] Ellen Brody: Martin, it's his birthday tomorrow! Brody: I don't want him out on the water! Ellen Brody: He is not out on the water, he is in a boat! He's not going to g...

Jaws

{ } Despite their opposing religious views, the old revivalist on his deathbed asked to read to him from the black book clutched to his chest. relented, took the book, and was surprised to discover that it wasn't the Bible. It was describing the nobl...

Love

We women think men are obsessed with sex, and we’re so wrong. Men care about being comfortable. Old jackets, old habits, old ways, old sweethearts, they want all that. They hate change, it gets them unsettled, and they get enough of that when they ...

Wrong, for the right reasons