Old Man Quotes - Page 11

• I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

  Owen D. Young

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

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• There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Wise

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

  John Zakour

  Fool Me Once, Mentor, Whiskey

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• The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Men, Two, Bird

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• ...No one died from infection under Keen. ...He (Keen) began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with expulsion from the Pennsylvania Medical Association.....This was in the 1890's....Finally was accepted as the greatest surgeon in the US. The old man told me - and he started to cry...'I nearly went under. I was nearly shut off.

  Paul Douglas

  Dark, Men, Age

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• I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.

  John Travolta

  Wise, Men, Careers

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.

  Francis Dunnery

  Song, Hero, Angel

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• I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.

  Feist

  Beautiful, Sunshine, Thinking

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• What wouldst thou do, old man?
  Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
  When power to flattery bows?

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.387

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• When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Children, Men, Sitting

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• There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.249, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• Fathers and sons are natural enemies. Look at any species. Shark, sees his father in the water, he's not thinking, Hey dad, wassup ? He's thinking, Back off, old man, this surfer carcass is mine. Of course, when his girlfriend swims up and she's like, Way, you know, there's enough surfer for everybody. You and your dad need to frenzy together more. Leave you father a thigh.

  Christopher Titus

  Girlfriend, Dad, Father

  "Titus / NASCAR". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• And isn't that weird? Think about this, when you're born, you nurse on your mama. And then you get a little older, you go to applesauce. And then you see these toddlers walking around with these Ziploc baggies full of Cheerios. Then you get to be my age, and the doctor wants you to start eating Cheerios to watch your cholesterol. Then you lose your teeth, you go to applesauce. I now know why old men like women with really big boobs. They see a trend. I mean, they call it a nursing home, hello.

  Bill Engvall

  Mean, Home, Nursing

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• As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Suffering, Taught

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• Medical marijuana users are now lobbying for the right to carry firearms. Because no one is a better shot than a stoned old man with glaucoma.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Men, Lobbying

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• Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

  Adam McKay

  Men, Phones

  "Gross Prophets". Interview with Brett Martin, www.gq.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

  Edwyn Collins

  Believe, Men, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.

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• I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then we got to throw away a lot of the script because we just did Jack Palance jokes, because it was just too delicious, watching this old man carry on like that.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Men, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Men, Bars

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about 1920. I try to write everything down at once, in one sitting. The longer stories in this collection are divided up into sections. Each section represents a different sitting, a different idea for the same story.

  Arthur Bradford

  Writing, Typewriters, Ideas

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

  Yann Martel

  Men, Sea, People

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• Old men make war, young men fight and die

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Men

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• I was always really shy. That's why being in front of cameras like this is uncomfortable. I found that when I was a kid, I would hide behind playing pretend. That's when I would come out of my shell. I would dress up as an old man or something and go out onto the street with my mom. I would come out of my shell that way. So I ended up stumbling into acting. It was the one thing that I found a passion for.

  Austin Butler

  Mom, Kids, Passion

  Source: www.justjared.com

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