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Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions. -- Julia Ward Howe
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. -- Dolly Parton
I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns. -- Giancarlo Esposito
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro. -- Martin Scorsese
I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn! -- Camille Paglia
I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer. -- Andre Balazs
I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song. -- Clint Black
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. -- Kurt Sutter
As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing. -- Abel Ferrara
I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute. -- Gary Jennings
Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect. -- Manny Farber
As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working. -- James Hong
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. -- Ernest Gaines
Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states. -- Tony Campolo
I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music. -- Robert Crumb
I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in. -- Robert Crumb
I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society. -- Trevor Phillips
You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' -- Alison Krauss
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music. -- Sam Shepard
Old Time the clock-setter. -- William Shakespeare
That old bald cheater, Time. -- Ben Jonson
old pear tree starlings announce harvest time -- Phil Noble
But time growing old teaches all things. -- Aeschylus
I just don't have time to get old! -- Dolly Parton
Time waxing old can many a lesson teach. -- Aeschylus
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. -- Maggie Kuhn
By many a temple half as old as Time. -- Samuel Rogers
Time does not heal old wounds. New ones do. -- Kalynn Campbell
Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill. -- Roger Zelazny
Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time -- Anne Hathaway
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. -- Sophocles
Time is a kind friend, he will make us old. -- Sara Teasdale
Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
I don't like the same old thing all the time. -- Cobi Jones
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. -- John Leonard
It is time to be old To take in sail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was five years old the first time I got drunk. -- Jack London
I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano. -- Little Richard
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15. -- Robert Breault
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down. -- Alex Haley
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. -- Anthony Eden
The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.' -- Ric Flair
Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs. -- Wellington Mara
As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick. -- Terry Pratchett
Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old. -- Christie Hefner
Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one. -- Bonnie Tyler
In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary. -- Anne Sexton
Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave. -- Caroline Norton
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. -- Charles Dickens
The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever. -- Isaac Rosenberg
I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old. -- John Corbett
The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones. -- John Wooden
I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time. -- Marian Seldes
By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway. -- Marianne Williamson
Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time. -- Patrick Ness
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try. -- William Shakespeare
...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time. -- Jonah Lehrer
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism. -- Newt Gingrich
Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young! -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it. -- Ted Williams
I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time. -- Mireille Mathieu
Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself. -- Margaret Stohl
My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old. -- Robert Mondavi
Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old. -- George Berkeley
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. -- Anne Bradstreet
I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything. -- Robin Thicke
Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy -- Paulo Coelho
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late. -- Mike Tyson
The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -- William Shakespeare
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books -- Aravind Adiga
I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well. -- David Bowie
By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life. -- Michael Bergin
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. -- James Russell Lowell
[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. -- Helen Hooven Santmyer
I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time. -- Michel de Montaigne
Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote. -- Brian Wilson
I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old -- Ethel Merman
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. -- Bill Vaughan
By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water." -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me. -- Randy Johnson
The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old. -- Craig Wilson
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young? -- Winifred Holtby
I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
I think it's high time we started questioning the old cliches like "Grunt big for Daddy." -- Jack Handey
By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game. -- Grenville Kleiser
As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old. -- Will Eisner
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. -- Plato
the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old. -- Mary Lee Settle
From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was. -- Dick Van Patten
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever. -- Joe Montana
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. -- Horace
When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning. -- Saib Tabrizi
If time heals all wounds, then why are there so many ticked off old people walking around -- Garrison Wynn
By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful. -- Gerry Cooney
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. -- Elvis Presley
You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home. -- Marie Lloyd
Fear not of evil.. Everyday dem flesh it grow old Changes of the time take the toll. -- Damian Marley
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all. -- Pericles
I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old. -- Gillian Jacobs
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. -- Florence King
Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created. -- Yoko Ono
Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day? -- Ralph Hodgson
I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends. -- Johnny Depp
I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22. -- Nate Ruess
How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time? -- Nancy E. Turner
One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.' -- Demetri Martin
Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around! -- Abigail Washburn
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither. -- Steve McVey
It takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving. -- Matt Labash
Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old. -- Cleo Moore
Your old grade book is a waste of space and time. Don't hesitate; just throw it Out. -- Starr Sackstein
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away. -- Benjamin Franklin
Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play -- Joey Ramone
Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day? -- Ralph Hodgson
I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time. -- Carol Leifer

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