#old

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#beautiful #because #go #handsome #much

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable. ↗

— Lillian Gish

#even #explain #get #i #i believe

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#column #comes #copy #expression #habit

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold. ↗

— Diane Glancy

#mold #poetry #uses

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#accept #auditioned #because #clue #deaf

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#heads #men #network #off #older

It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records. ↗

— Al Jourgensen

#companies #mold #put #record #record companies

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#always #better #days #great #i

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#alone #appearing #artist #everybody #him

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't. ↗

— Thomas Gold

#certainly #cold #cold war #communication #could