Quotes with years-old

Quotes 181 till 200 of 1807.

  • Robert Bresson An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Harry Houdini An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Benjamin Franklin An old young man, will be a young old man.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
    Source: Business Review, Volume 22
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bipasha Basu An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Ancient Pines, Ye bear no record of the years of man. Spring is your sole historian.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bob Schieffer And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bill Bryson And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Dylan And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
    To the old folks home and the college
    Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bret Harte And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,
    This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
    Source: East and West Poems, Part I The Old Major Explains
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Barry McGuire And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Barack Obama And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Beau Bridges And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Aulus Gellius Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
    Aulus Gellius
    Roman author and grammarian
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  • Winston Churchill Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Peter de Vries Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ''What's in it for me?''
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Bill Mumy Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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