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Old Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
- I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
- Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the…
- Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old…
- While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not…
- But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but…
- This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.
- How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth…
- Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.
- Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown…
- I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
- Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest…
- Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. Its like the tide going out, revealing whatevers been thrown…
More Old Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe