Pastoral Resources

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.

In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.