Old quotes

“I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!” David Bowie

“Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.” David Bowie

“And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.” John Rockefeller

“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.” Jon Stewart

“Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.” Jon Stewart

“A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.” Steven Spielberg

“I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.” Steven Spielberg

“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” Joseph Stalin

“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.” Charles Stanley

“His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.” Charles Stanley

“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.” John Steinbeck

“I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.” John Steinbeck

“I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.” John Steinbeck

“Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.” Michael Jordan

“How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.” Michael Jordan

“I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.” Angelina Jolie

“A decent boldness ever meets with friends.” Homer

“I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.” Paris Hilton

“It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.” Judy Garland

“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.” Albert Schweitzer

“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.” Jonathan Swift

“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.” Jonathan Swift

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.” Jonathan Swift

“A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.” Jonathan Swift