His Old Quotes

69 quotes by 60 authors

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of… — Holbrook Jackson
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man. — Billie Joe Armstrong
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and… — William James
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his… — J D Salinger
To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people… — Michael Haneke
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his… — Herbert Hoover
When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone.… — Christian D. Larson
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold… — Neville Cardus
Tell me that I got the fattest pussy in the whole world & if I let him eat it I can be his old girl — Nicki Minaj
No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a… — William Carlos Williams
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul… — Allen Johnson
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,… — Ellen Tauscher
On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of… — Justin Cronin
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting… — Russell Baker
I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed… — Vance Havner
I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old… — A. Scott Berg
If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then… — C.S. Lewis
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his… — John Dewey

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