Village is an idea; universe is an idea! If you cannot create an idea bigger than your village you live in, you remain inside your village; if we cannot create an idea greater than this universe, we remain inside this universe!
Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.
I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.
This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy.
I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.
I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.
Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with ot...
A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.
You have to put a young girl onto an old man.
An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing.
A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
