Quotes of: Old-man Keyword

The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a ya...

The Old Man and the Sea

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Holbrook Jackson

Pete Perkins: Thank you! Old Man with Radio: I need to ask you a favor. Pete Perkins: Anything you want. Old Man with Radio: I need you to go ahead and shoot me. My son, he ain't coming back. Pete Perkins: Oh, he'll come back. Old Man with Radio: He ...

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Mr. Parker: Dadgummit! Blow out! [on the highway, the car has gotten a flat tire] Mr. Parker: Ah ha! [excitedly gets out of the car] Mother: Not again. Mr. Parker: Four minutes. Time me. Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Actually the Old Man loved it. He...

A Christmas Story

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

Death Comes for the Archbishop

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

The Great Escape

Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?

Beauty and the Barbarian

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

The Old Man and the Sea

Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.

Tall Man Small Shadow

Come visit me in my dreams sometime. Look a little older and I'll look a little younger -- who knows what could happen. - Old Man Crow

de Lint Charles Vess Charles

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.

Charles Studd

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

Edward Lear

Man who hires Wells: Did I say you could sit? Carson Wells: No, but you strike me as a man who wouldn't want to waste his chair.

No Country for Old Men

Mercedes: [to Vidal] I'm not some old man! Or a wounded prisoner! Motherfucker... Don't you dare touch the girl. You won't be the first pig I've gutted!

Pan's Labyrinth

The Old Man: [held at gunpoint by Jones] Dick, you're *fired*! [Directive 4 limitation against Jones is cancelled] RoboCop: Thank you. [shoots Jones]

RoboCop

Han Solo: Sure hope the old man got that tractor beam out of commission, or this is gonna be a real short trip. Okay, hit it!

Star Wars

Old Man: Look what your brother did to the door! Ain't he got no pride in his home?

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

He’s a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he’s fifty, and even then there’s still hope for the ladies, as Mary W...

Alias Grace

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near...

Elbert Hubbard

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Felix Frankfurter