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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
— Malorie Blackman
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
— Gilbert Highet
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.
— Thomas Nelson Page
I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
— Albert Camus
From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.
— Asafa Powell
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
— Hooman Majd
The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.
— Peter S. Beagle
I intend to grow old very disgracefully.
— Cilla Black
The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.
— Julianne Moore
I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery.
— Alice Hoffman
I am something new, and in this old world steeped in legends, ancestors, and what came before, something new is something very special.
— Pierce Brown
Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne?
— L.M. Montgomery
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
— Dario Argento
Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
— Caitriona Balfe
I am getting very old, and I began to wonder if I should ever live to see your chapters of our story.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.
— Margaret Atwood
The new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world.
— Padgett Powell
Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.
— Rita Rudner
I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
— Iman
I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch.
— Geraldo Rivera
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
— L.M. Montgomery
Old, is it?" the man asks.
"Yes, very."
"Pre-war, is it?"
"Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion. — Garrett Carr
"Yes, very."
"Pre-war, is it?"
"Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion. — Garrett Carr
I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.
— Woody Allen
A year in Vermont, according to an old saw, is nine months of winter followed by three months of very poor sledding.
— Bill Bryson
That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.
— John Deacon
Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.
— Bassem Youssef
I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.
— Adrian Grenier
The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane,
— H.P. Lovecraft
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. Nature
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].
— Arthur B. Robinson
Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.
— Cindy Crawford
Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.
— Amit Kalantri
I don't want to get old. I have this very silly fear, dear friend, that one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young.
— Beatrice Sparks
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.
— Robert Lowell
I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
— Groucho Marx
Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
— Brian Wilson
We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.
— Stephen Baxter
We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.
— Meryl Streep
To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
— Michael Caine
Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
— Annie Dillard
Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.
— Stephen Chbosky
I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.
— Catherine Malandrino
I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!
— Tyne Daly
You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
— Maeve Binchy
Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
— Jenna Dewan
Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. (And) I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.
— George H. W. Bush
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
— Sherwood Anderson
Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
— James Nasmyth
One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.
— Astrid Berges-Frisbey
Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!
— Dante Alighieri
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
Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.
— Alison Jackson
God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created.
— Irving Stone
Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
— Andre Maurois
I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.
— Don Van Vliet
Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
— Bo Burnham
I didn't know how I felt, except confused and bewildered, and very, very young. And the world all about us was wise, and old, so old.
— V.C. Andrews
A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
— Rainn Wilson
I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
— Candace Bushnell
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
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
— Margaret Drabble
At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.
— Goldie Hawn
People don't talk about mercy very much these days - it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary
— Alexander McCall Smith
I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.
— Joan Smalls
I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.
— Johnny Vegas
I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
— Annette Bening
If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!
— John Green
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
— George Saville
If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.
— Chief Dan George
I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.
— Mireille Mathieu
About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.
— Don Herold
The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
— Brett Dennen
...the very, very old fae tended to go through an unhealthy stage of boredom that was often followed by a period of 'goin' doololly.
— E.J. Stevens
There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.
— Michelle Franklin
If thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?" "Very valuable in the antique market." Dr.
— Marissa Meyer
We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.
— Ozzy Osbourne
I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.
— Jack Whitehall