There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
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.
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.
I feel like I'm too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.
This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.
In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.
I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.
It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.