Quotes of: Old-thing Keyword

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

Steve Coogan

Felicia: This old man he played two. He played knick-knack with my poo!

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Mortimer Brewster: When I come back, I expect to find you gone. Wait for me!

Arsenic and Old Lace

Martha Brewster: [to Mortimer] One of our gentlemen found time to say "How delicious"!

Arsenic and Old Lace

[Elaine is impatient to leave on the honeymoon] Elaine Harper: But, darling - Niagara Falls. Mortimer Brewster: It does? Well, let it.

Arsenic and Old Lace

[after finding the dead body in the window seat] Mortimer Brewster: But - what happened to him? Martha Brewster: [cheerfully] He died.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster: [to Mr. Gibbs] You... Get out of here! D'ya wanna be poisoned? D'ya wanna be murdered? D'ya wanna be killed?

Arsenic and Old Lace

[first lines] Baseball Fan: I'll knock your block off, you big stiff! You're a bum!

Arsenic and Old Lace

Joker: Don't touch me, old man! I don't know where you've been.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.

Albert Finney

So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.

Andreas Katsulas

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

Rush Limbaugh

Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.

Life

An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

German

Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch i...

The Green Mile

It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he had exactly the kind of body that most appealed to her, tall and lean, broad in the shoulder, narrow at the hip. Then there was ...

Ain't She Sweet

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a...

The Summer of a Dormouse

I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still...

The Trouble With Valentine's Day

By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the window was small and easy to miss, and the antique feel of the place wasn't the prepackaged, old-shit-on-the-wall nostalgia that came with s...

Scott B. Pruden

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sent...

Samuel Beckett

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorb...

Christian D. Larson