Old Man Quotes - Page 5

• suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

  e. e. cummings

  Flower, Men, Life Is

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.23, C.H.Beck

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• Nowadays I'm really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybody's like "I can reverse the polarity of your ions!" Like in one big flash everybody's Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don't understand anything anymore. And all the girls are wearing nothing, and they all look like they have implants. Well, I sound like a very old man, and a cranky one, but it's true.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Wall, Men

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

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• I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.

  Hayley Williams

  Jesus, Gay, Sunday

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• Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You’re a mess. You’ve gone wrong somewhere pal.

  Irvine Welsh

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

  Ken Kesey

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.70, Hamilton Books

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• But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.

  John Green

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, May 3, 2012.

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• A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Men, Hands, Mind

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I’m sure the Clave will be ecstatic.” “They’ll just say you’re mad,” said Jessamine. “They already think it, so what’s the difference, really?

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Thinking, Hair

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• Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Men, Cajuns

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.211, Macmillan

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• That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

  Grace Lin

  Moon, Men, Asks

  "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon". Book by Grace Lin, www.today.com. July 1, 2009.

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• Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.
 In the cradle a child is screaming.
 An old man sits over his death, and anyone
 young enough talks to his love, breathes 
into her lips, looks into her eyes.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Children, Sleep, Eye

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.48, Carcanet

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• Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Men, Lost

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.54, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nobody says, hey men should not drink. It's all about women must dress differently, women must walk differently, women must drink differently. Why are we not able to hold men to account for this behavior?

  Jon Stewart

  Men, Dresses, Hey

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• I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

  Anupam Kher

  Men, Years, Roles

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• My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, Men, Guitar

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

  James A. Garfield

  Memories, Men, Observation

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• LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Son, Men, Illustration

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

  Neil Young

  Family, Men, Looks

  Song: Old Man, Album: Harvest

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• The old men know when an old man dies.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Age, Knows

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Reality, Men, People

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• Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

  John Keble

  Sweet, Men, Age

  John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.173

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• I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.

  Sessue Hayakawa

  Men, Japan, Two Friends

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• HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head bears a wreath of holly and he often carries a staff that is typically a holly branch. Some Santa Claus figures are actually Holly King figures.

  Raven Grimassi

  Kings, Winter, Men

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• History -- its what those bitter old men write.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Writing, Men, History

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• Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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