Quotes with old-timers

Quotes 441 till 460 of 903.

  • Calvin Klein No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Vladimir Mayakovsky No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
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  • Marie Beyon Ray No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Sydney Harris Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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  • Samuel Ullman Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry David Thoreau None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Angela Carter Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Bill Ayers Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Orson Welles Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Sir Thomas Malory Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
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  • Jonathan Swift Observation is an old man's memory.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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