Old Man Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  God, Men, Trying

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• Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

  Bob Dylan

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

  Karrine Steffans

  Men, Water, Hollywood

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• It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

  R. L. Stine

  Jobs, Writing, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

  Zack Snyder

  Country, Brother, Book

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• How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

  Nate Mendel

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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• I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

  Harry Melling

  Drama, Moving, School

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• I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Children, Men

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

  Tom Waits

  Men, Stories, Knows

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Do not let me hear
  Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
  Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
  Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
  The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
  Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

  T. S. Eliot

  Humility, Men, Endless

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

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• It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

  Joss Stone

  Men, Years, Attractive

  "Joss Stone smokes weed most days and hasn't heard of Cheryl Cole. Any connection?". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2009.

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• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

  Abraham Verghese

  Teacher, Years, Eerie

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• If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Men, Past, Vampire

  "Twilight Q&A: Daniel Cudmore". Interview with Rebecca Cox, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. October 12, 2012.

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• People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

  Ogden Nash

  Eye, Men, People

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

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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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• 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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• You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.

  Standing Bear

  Brother, Children, Father

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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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• 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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• 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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• Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Immortality, Interest

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• Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

  Harrison Ford

  Fighting, Men, Years

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