I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.
I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.
I'm going to tap until I can't: I'll be so old, all I can do is walk out from the wings to stage center. But I'll be there.
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
Moments never wait for anyone, slowly the new moment pushes the old moment back and then it never comes back. That's what makes them precious.
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
The King had advertised the old magic tea set, but for some reason, no one wanted sugar teeth that could gouge their eyes out.
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
Matter fakes, face fades. Under sheets, Fake bades. Sick old spell, coldy carries, Heat-tranced ghost, living buried.
You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.
These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.
