Old Man Quotes - Page 37

• The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.

  Marc Blucas

  Sports, School, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

  Christopher Columbus

  Men, Loud Voices, Sky

  "Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for October 13, 1492,

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• There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

  Marcus Wareing

  College, Men, Taught

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• It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, 'Son, can you play me a memory?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'

  Billy Joel

  Sweet, Memories, Son

  Song: Piano Man, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Men, Important, Martial Arts

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• I had success as an actor relatively early. When I was 22, I got nominated for an Academy Award for The Last Picture Show, so that road, you know, had the least resistance. I was doing my music all that time, but it's pretty hard to turn down these great movie offers. And my father counseled me; he said, "You know, one of the wonderful things about acting is that you can incorporate all of your interests into the different parts you play." I'm glad I listened to the old man, because that's the way it turned out.

  Jeff Bridges

  Father, Men, Acting

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview With Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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• I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

  Roddy Doyle

  Men, Lovely, Age

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• When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

  Len Deighton

  War, Pride, Men

  "Eleven Declarations of War". Book by Len Deighton, 1971.

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• I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

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• She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Witty, Love Is

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.203, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I've really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don't think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it.

  River Phoenix

  Song, Kids, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there.

  Heath Ledger

  Men, Long, Want

  "Variety", December 2005.

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• What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Men, Childhood, Firsts

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• As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Men, Preparation, Sitting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

  David Wenham

  Kings, Crazy, Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.

  Damon Dash

  Men, Perspective, Entrepreneur

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• Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about the humor, the intelligence, the tenderness, the brilliance of the folks in DeLisle, Mississippi. A community that's usually wiped off the literary map can't be erased when it's in a book this good.

  Victor LaValle

  Pain, Book, Loss

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• There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'

  William Cosmo Monkhouse

  Men, Wife, Funny Marriage

  "There Once Was an Old Man of Lyme" l. 1 (date unknown)

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• We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

  Al Dubin

  Depression, Men, Sky

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• The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Thought Provoking, Down And

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.153, Heinemann

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• Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.

  Thomas Szasz

  Strong, Sex, Powerful

  The Second Sin "Sex" (1973)

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