Old quotes

“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?” Ernest Hemingway

“I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.” Jimi Hendrix

“You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.” Mick Jagger

“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.” William James

“Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.” Kim Kardashian

“I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.” Kim Kardashian

“My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.” Kim Kardashian

“You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.” Kim Kardashian

“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.” Stephen King

“But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?” Stephen King

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.” Stanley Kubrick

“I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.” Stanley Kubrick

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.” Rudyard Kipling

“If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'” Rudyard Kipling

“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.” Rudyard Kipling

“Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.” Rudyard Kipling

“Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated.” Rudyard Kipling

“Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.” Rush Limbaugh

“Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.” Rush Limbaugh

“Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.” Rush Limbaugh

“The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reid's, Barney Frank's, you name it, Eric Holder.” Rush Limbaugh

“You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.” Rush Limbaugh

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” Clive Staples Lewis

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” Clive Staples Lewis

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” Clive Staples Lewis

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.” Clive Staples Lewis

“I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.” Paul McCartney