Quotes of: Old-testament Keyword

The Bride: I was wondering, just between us girls, what did you say to Pai Mei for him to snatch out your eye? Elle Driver: [flashback showing Pai Mei snatching out Elle's eye] I called him a miserable old fool. The Bride: Ooh, bad idea. Elle Driver:...

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Jack Crabb: Grandfather, I am glad to see you. Old Lodge Skins: Glad to see you too, my son. My heart soars like a hawk. Do you want to eat? I won't eat with you, because I'm gonna' die soon. Jack Crabb: Die, grandfather? Old Lodge Skins: Yes, my son...

Little Big Man

Old James Ryan: [addressing Capt. Miller's grave] My family is with me today. They wanted to come with me. To be honest with you, I wasn't sure how I'd feel coming back here. Every day I think about what you said to me that day on the bridge. I tried...

Saving Private Ryan

Caden Cotard: I wanted to ask you, how old are kids when they start to write? Madeleine Gravis: Listen, there's an absolutely brilliant novel written by a four year old. Caden Cotard: Really? Madeleine Gravis: 'Little Winky" by Horace Azpiazu. Caden ...

Synecdoche, New York

Only when a new government comes to power do you learn to appreciate the values of the old one.

Myanmar

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Traditional

That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another.

Christianity as Old as the Creation

There is nothing more notable in than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

The Complete Essays

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

Death Comes for the Archbishop

...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.

Dom Casmurro

You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, and I listened.

Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

An Essay on Criticism

Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.

The Front Runner

was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.

Fathers and Sons

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

As good as Golda;: The warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

Green Mars

Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

It seemed as if the longer she lived, the more was taken from her. Not gradually, as old age fell into the inevitable, but lobbed off in great chunks, the healthy branches sacrificed along with the frail.

Beach Colors

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same old wheels.

Beyond Good and Evil

In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.

Cloud Atlas