#old

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable. ↗

— Bono

#action #action movie #adultery #blood #car

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #approach #aware #childhood #children

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#confusing #fit #gender #get #more

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#best-seller #book #selling #sold #somehow

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#convey #good #good heart #heart #how

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#corp #go #infiltrate #into #marine

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#fast #golden #hollywood #know #mom

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. ↗

— Julius Erving

#career #could #envy #family #family life

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?' ↗

— Wes Borland

#ah #always #around #band #because