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  • I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

    Simple   Air   Careers  
    "Ellie Goulding: pop sensation". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2009.
  • Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it.

    Body   Sometimes   Boring  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

    Book   Thinking   Years  
  • There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

  • I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.

    Sometimes   Young   Shows  
    Source: ratedrnb.com
  • ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.311, Random House
  • I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

    Birthday   Thinking   Law  
  • I am far from an "old" person in human terms, however I've spent over half my life immersed in the punk rock and hardcore community. I am not wholly defined by that as a person, but it is something that has been part of me for a long time.

    Rocks   Long   Community  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

    Beauty   Real   Elderly  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

    Funny   Wisdom   Long  
    George Santayana, James Seaton (2014). “Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States: And Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.143, Yale University Press
  • Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it impossible to be uncomfortable? Because I do assume that as an old person, I will be very comfortable. There will be something - a drug or some way to impact the air around me - that when I relax, I'm gonna feel great. So I do look forward to that.

    Impact   Air   Drug  
    "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.
  • There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

    Pigs   Ducks   Figs  
    Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear (2004). “Utter Nonsense: Selected Poems of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear”, p.29, Lonely Scribe
  • I'm an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s - I even have a couple of 33s and I do have a turntable. But I must admit, I don't listen to vinyl today. But I listen to all types of music.

    Couple   Dvds   Today  
  • I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

    Years   Care   Misguided  
    "Rick Ross Rape Lyrics: Talib Kweli Takes Rapper To Task Over Controversial Song" By Jermaine Spradley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.
  • Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started: Dear Diary, I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity. God alive, I feel supple.

  • If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.

    "The Burden of Skepticism" by Carl Sagan, 1987.
  • I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

    Childhood   Age   Care  
  • Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

    Loss   Compassion   Sick  
    Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”
  • I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.

    People   Alcohol   Towns  
    Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen
  • Never let an old person live in your body.

  • If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

    Men   People   Want  
  • Beautiful old people are works of art.

    Beautiful   Art   Nursing  
  • In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

    Serenity   Age   Behavior  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.292
  • If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

    Finishing   World   Faces  
    "What I see in the mirror: Rolf Harris" by Rolf Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.
  • In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

  • I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near

    Nikki Giovanni, “Quilts”
  • Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

    "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 3)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.
  • Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.

  • I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.

    "Why She Had a Double Mastectomy". "The Oprah Winfrey Show", edition.cnn.com. 2008.
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