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CHAPTER IX CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS
— Charles Dickens
An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.
— Mark Tobey
Replace the old memory with a potentially crappier new one? No thank you.
— Lauren Barnholdt
My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
— Paul McCartney
I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.
— Stephen Tobolowsky
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 I was getting into.
— Lance Armstrong
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
— William Cowper
Conversion is not merely a ticket out of hell. It is the beginning of a whole new life, not just an end to the old one.
— Aimee Byrd
It's just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they'd go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Terror owned Adam. The old terror, the one that was just as much confusion and betrayal as fear itself.
— Maggie Stiefvater
We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
— Grant Morrison
I climbed out of my old Porsche in the staff
— James Patterson
The old order changes yielding place to new.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Would you like to be young again? Play any kind of sport you used to? All day long, with no soreness the next day?"
"Who Wouldn't? — Lissa Price
"Who Wouldn't? — Lissa Price
I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says.
— Paul Broun
I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.
— Mike Quigley
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation
— Dalai Lama
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
— Urs Fischer
Two remarkable men
one young, one old
fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On. — Leonard Maltin
one young, one old
fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On. — Leonard Maltin
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
— Frank Stella
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
— Marvin Hamlisch
The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
— Philip Yancey
There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise.
— Cheryl Strayed
The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.
— William J. Clinton
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
— Edward Norton Lorenz
Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!
— Red Buttons
She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady.
— Drew Magary
In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me.
— Victoria Aveyard
Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.
— Immortal Technique
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
— Rudyard Kipling
Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.
— Jack London
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
— Maurice Sendak
My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
— Kevin Kwan
Representing not just the resurrection of a career, 1953 marked 37-year-old Frank Sinatra's creative emergence as the best singer of his century.
— Steve Erickson
Today, many Christians don't seem concerned about the Old Testament, but apparently God still has concern for His Law, all the way to the end of time.
— Jim Bakker
The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
— Marian Keyes
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
— Patti LaBelle
As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.
— John Caudwell
Grandma, how old is she?"
"Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck. — Richard Peck
"Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck. — Richard Peck
I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
— Fantasia Barrino
I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
— Steffi Graf
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
— Christopher Lasch
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
— Shelley Berman
THERE'S OLD SORROW in your blood like second nature and new sorrow that maddens the halls of sense. Causes
— Sebastian Barry
In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.
— Robert Breault
Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'. (Talitha)
— Helen Fielding
Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.
— Maggie Young
The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of.
— Philip Reeve
The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.
— Tom Robbins
The young have hopes and dreams, while the old hold the remains of them in their hands and wonder what has happened to their lives.
— Tan Twan Eng
Yep. There's a lie on the wall of my old elementary school that only my Granddaddy and me know about... And I'm okay with that.
— Sean Patrick Flanery
Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century?
— Erik Larson
To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
— Michael Caine
But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
— Walter Raleigh
Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.
— Jason Hirschhorn
It's ironic, really, isn't it? Nineteen-year age gap, and it's the old bloke who comes in his pants, and the twenty-something with performance issues.
— Jay Northcote
Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late. — J. Tonzelli
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late. — J. Tonzelli
I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.
— Ecaterina Szabo
I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again.
— Nicholas Braun
A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.
— Bill Burr
O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.
— James G. Frazer
I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did.
— Courtney Thorne-Smith
For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.
— Annie Dillard
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
— Gerald Raftery
Next door I could hear the old man's soul flap its heavy vermillion butterfly wings as the hustler shot a load down his throat.
— Tom Cardamone
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.
— Joan Collins
Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.
— Henry Fox
Two years older than me, but he's [Dust] one of those guys who you known is an old soul the moment you meet him.
— Katie McGarry
Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?
— Charles Spurgeon
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
— William Wordsworth
Lazy in everything," said Ross, "but the search for excuses. Like two old pigs in their sty and as slow to move from their own patch of filth." Prudie
— Winston Graham
Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?
— Anne Rice
Nobody messes with my boy. Not Abraham Ravenwood, nor the Serpent or Old Scratch himself, you hear?
— Kami Garcia
Wish to seek if my quote are original? Save your time - Everything is old under the sun.
— Garry Fitchett
Tell the truth and . . .run!"
Old Croatian proverb — Teresa Toten
Old Croatian proverb — Teresa Toten
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
— Madame De Stael
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
— Norman Cousins
I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain.
— Johnny Cash
As I moved about the room I would encounter that silver wedge of a moon at this window or that, like some old beggar who wished to be invited in.
— George Saunders
Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.
— Donald Hall
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
— Honore De Balzac
It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.
— John Calvin
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
— Ambrose Bierce