Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
Alex: No time for the old in-n-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.
Subway Vagrant: Father, could you help an old altar boy? I'm Cat'lick.
Narrator: I can't get married - I'm a thirty-year-old boy.
Harry: Why are they all standing around that manky old boot?
George Bailey: [Mr Potter] What's eatin' that old money-grubbin' buzzard anyway?
Helen: [on the phone with an old friend] Snug, I'm calling in a solid you owe me.
Old Lodge Skins: Today is a good day to die.
Judge Doom: No Toon can resist the old shave-and-a-haircut trick...
But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
