Old Lady Quotes - Page 4

• I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy--er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Girl, Book, Knitting

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• Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.

  Donna Leon

  People, Bars, Way

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• Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.

  Alexa Chung

  Thinking, Years, Suits You

  "Interview: Alexa Chung covers our spring fashion issue". Interview with Rachel LeWinter, www.timeout.com. April 21, 2013.

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• While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.

  N. T. Wright

  Dog, Jesus, Children

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• At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Grandchildren, Years

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• It felt like strappy sandals were looking really old lady-ish; really dated and not cool.

  Tamara Mellon

  Sandals, Felt

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?

  Michael Shannon

  Thinking, Helping, Sometimes

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• I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Hair, Feels, Like Me

  "Sinead O'Connor Finds New Roots - in Jamaica". Interview with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. October 16, 2005.

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• I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

  Victoria Moran

  Littles, Realizing, Mature

  "Veg and the City: The Life Changing Effects of a Raw Food Diet" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.

  Bob Hawke

  Elizabeth Ii, Commonwealth, Knows

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

  Big Pun

  Order, Law, Wicked

  Song: Wrong Ones, Album: Yeeeah Baby, 2000

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• My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

  Elton John

  Family, Men, Care

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• Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

  Jane Jacobs

  Fashion, Men, Intellectual

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.371, Vintage

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• I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

  Jane Elliott

  Thinking, Play, Years

  "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.

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• My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

  Emily Carr

  Determination, White, Mountain

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.99, D & M Publishers

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• I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

  Mike Tyson

  Sorry, Real, Boxing

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• You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.

  Wyclef Jean

  Female, Might, Vibes

  Source: djbooth.net

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• You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady. "You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese.

  Neil Gaiman

  Boss, Carrying On, Stuff

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• I'm so quick, I could spit in the wind, duck, and let it hit the old lady behind me.

  Roddy Piper

  Wind, Wwe, Ducks

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

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• Usually, old ladies tell me to find Jesus. Look, I'm just trying to find some chai and a good vegan muffin.

  Davey Havok

  Jesus, Trying, Muffins

  "Despairing with AFI" by Kate Stroup in Rolling Stone Magazine, March 25, 2003.

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• Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Believe, Iran

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.128, Soft Skull Press

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• They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.

  Tina Turner

  Kids, Shapes, Flesh

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• The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Writing, Wine, Kissing

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• She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away as soon as their money was spent. She said that the clause about the money was always repeated in case God should miss it.

  Robert Graves

  Girl, War, Night

  "Goodbye to all that: and other great war writings".

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• Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

  John O'Hara

  Sex, Book, Writing

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