It's a funny old world.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.
Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.