Old Quotes
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I don't want to redo what I've just done. I don't want to retread old ground.
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There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.
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Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!
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I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
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I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.
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Old things have strange hungers.
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The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old.
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I don’t like telling people telling how old I am.
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I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
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We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
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I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an C man and that I cannot set the world afire.
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When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
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You a Catholic, Harry?” O’Neill asked. “I was. Can’t see it any more.” “You know something?” O’Neill offered after a pause. “Religion is for punks and old folks. When you’re a punk you need it because you don’t know any better and it straightens you up. And when you’re old you need it for comfort before you check out. But in between it’s no good.
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Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.
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When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.
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A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
