Quotes of: Old-thing Keyword

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

Raphael Saadiq

The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

Hailee Steinfeld

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

Malin Akerman

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

John Deacon

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

Andy Rooney

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

Bill Ayers

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Les Dawson

Still must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak and cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as flowers and song and you; Still as of old his being give In Beauty's name, while she may live, Beauty that may not die as long As ther...

A Few Figs from Thistles

I do what he says and I close my eyes and open my mouth and the next thing I know he's got his twenty-eight-year-old tongue in my thirteen-year-old mouth and all I can think is that I don't think the hero is supposed to be doing this.

Hick

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at ...

To the Lighthouse

Shawn slowly climbed the old wooden stairs, listening to the low creak that sounded from his footsteps. He hoped the wood wouldn’t collapse beneath him. But the stairs held strong and a moment later he joined his friend in the kitchen of the old ho...

Small Things

Young Sophie: So you are going away. Please, Howl. I know I can be of help to you, even though I'm not pretty and all I'm good at is cleaning. Howl: Sophie! Sophie! You're beautiful! Old Sophie: Well, the nice thing about being old is you've got noth...

Howl's Moving Castle

Schism in the soul, schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme to return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to w...

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

There are so many things I wish I had learned when I was 16 or 17 years old. They would have been game changers in my life.

10 Things We Should Teach You In High School and Usually Don't

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that yo...

Walden

That's what memory is like: layers, one overlapping another, and compacting down the way old leaves slowly crumble and turn to a rich peaty soil, nourishing the new things that will grow. It's why it's important, remembering things. It's why it matte...

Drawing with Light

What the old ones sing, the young ones whistle.

Dutch

Old age and poverty are wounds that can't be healed.

Greek

Old age cures us of our youth.

Japanese

Old age does not announce itself.

South African

Dying while young is a boon in old age.

Yiddish