Best Old Woman Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I live here?'”

Years Simple Doors Asking California Candidates Governors Old Woman

Author:Craig Kilborn

“Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.”

Morning Curse Daily Life Every Morning Groceries Old Woman Clerks

Author:Mason Cooley

“Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.”

Cutting Spring Arrogance Gates Traps Rope Old Woman

Author:Mason Cooley

“War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.”

Men Want War Ends Suffering Girl Ugly Every Man Flirting Visitors Old Woman Pretty Girl

Author:Samuel ibn Naghrillah

“The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.”

Knows Years Matter Death Girl Accepting Five Shoes Five Years Life And Death Forty Mature Hung Foxes Daddy Belts Old Woman Five Year Olds

Author:Mary-Lou Weisman

“The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.”

Dies Burden Old Woman

Book:The Philosophy of Schopenhauer

Source: The Philosophy of Schopenhauer

“By nature, I'm like a 90-year-old woman, so the whole internet and Twitter and Facebook, and all of that, I'm very new to. But, I am quite shocked at how much fun it is to be able to reach out to people, on a daily basis, and keep content out there, and how much it actually really does help promote things, in such a different way.”

People Way Years Doe Different Whole Helping Able Fun Internet Bases Different Ways Reach Out Shocked Old Woman Twitter And Facebook

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.”

Thinking Years Character Guy Judgment Partners Teenager Flaws Alcoholics Old Woman Character Flaws

Author:Emily Yoffe

“The reason old man use Viagra is not that they are impotent. It's that old women are so very ugly.”

Men Reason Use Humor Funny Ugly Old Man Old Woman Viagra

Author:Jimmy Carr

“A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a caesarean section though, you'd think at 66 she would have needed some masking tape down there just to stop it falling out.”

Thinking Giving Years Humor Funny Fall Boys Baby Birth Needed Britain Tape Mum Amazed Sections Old Woman Giving Birth Baby Boy

Author:Frankie Boyle

“An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That's all she does - she almost doesn't recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We're the ones who are suffering. She's not.”

World Mean Children Doe Beautiful Young Suffering Wife Old Woman Reciting Baudelaire

Author:Agnes Varda

“Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.”

“Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.”

Turns Atheism Poet Atheist Lawyer Old Woman Pimp Flatterer Quacks Stallions Chaplains

Book:Love for Love: A Comedy

Source: Love for Love: A Comedy

“One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.”

Men Humans War Young Differences Young Man Ants Old Woman

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.”

Years Persons Country America Boys Particular Type Intelligent Canada Australia Old Woman Nicholson

Author:Douglas Adams

“A relationship book I once read told women to use the word fun whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times - the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me.”

Men Want Humans Book Use Girl Fun Effects Diets Good Times Relaxed Coke Old Woman Aphrodisiac Subliminal Diet Coke

Author:Julie Klausner

“All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.”

Knows Men I Can Passing Passings Useless Old Man Mistaken Grandchildren Old Woman Passing On Rift

Book:Thirteen Moons: A Novel

Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel

“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.”

Firsts Art Self Action Lasts Nations Prayer Walks Liberty Sacrifice Lessons Understood Instruments Brave Various Noble Honour Idle Amusement Defence Old Woman Walks Of Life

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.”

Years Novel Written Erotic Old Woman

Author:Gloria Vanderbilt

“I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?”

Littles Said Hands Christ Water Pieces Heard Blessing Bread Being Thankful Lifting Old Woman Cottages Appreciate What You Have Lifting Up

Book:The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language

Source: The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language

“How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!”

Beautiful Skins Wrinkles Old Woman

Author:Thomas Eakins

“If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women," you're not gonna make a sale. But, if you've got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into.”

Ifs Stories Wanted Girl Black Drug Prison Black Women Terrific Latino Blonde Old Woman Gateways Blonde Girl

Author:Jenji Kohan

“Old women with mobile phones look wrong.”

Looks Phones Mobile Old Woman Mobile Phones

Author:Peter Kay

“I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.”

Knows Years Like You Old Woman I Like You

Author:George Burns

“I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby.”

Heart Special Baby My Heart Saved Garbage Digging Old Woman Special Places

Author:Emo Philips

“The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.”

Way Needs Years Persons Different Careers Roles Talent College Drama Majors Fats Different Things Old Woman Yale

Author:Meryl Streep

“Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.”

Hard Imagine Nothingness Old Woman Taunting

Book:The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers

Source: The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers

“Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the Cold War, that she ought to be called and required to testify about what she knew. I remember he said, "Would the world vanish in a blast of flame if this old woman were subpoenaed and compelled to tell what she knows about the Communist Party's activities in the United States?"”

“My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old woman. I want to be Maggie Smith someday. Not exactly like her, but that genre. I like that kind of humor - sophisticated, vain stuff.”

Want Kind Dream Stuff Vain Genre Someday Sophisticated Fabulous Old Woman Like Her Maggie Bewitched

Author:Jackee Harry

“I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.”

People Thinking Men Way Kind Mean Reason Play Judging Cold Ambition Negative Female Clinton Awful Stereotype Secrecy Old Woman Calculating Lady Macbeth

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“I played a lesbian reporter in 1964, who was incarcerated, and ended the series as a 75-year-old woman. And then, I was a witch blinded by acid who became the Supreme, and took my mother's energy and life, so that I could live and she would die. And then, I was conjoined twins. And then, I played a heroin addict.”

Years Mother Dies Energy Series Supreme Witch Twins Reporters Addict Acid Heroin Old Woman Blinded Energy And Life Conjoined Twins

Author:Sarah Paulson

“First of all, you're improvising through a puppet, so you're not always yourself: you're a cow or you're a pig or you're an old woman, you know, whatever puppet you pick, or you're a demon, you know, whatever you pick up, that's what you get to be in the scene.”

Knows Firsts Scene Picks Demon Cows Pigs Puppets Old Woman Improvising

Author:Brian Henson

“A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.”

Enough Shows Young Causes Mystery Young Women Old Woman Frisbee

Author:Tyler Perry

“Maybe I would get the chance to be financed for a small romantic comedy, but a war movie by a 28-year-old woman about Japanese soldiers? No one was going to go for that. It's easy to just steal an idea because it's very safe.”

Years Ideas War Easy Chance Comedy Safe Soldier Stealing Old Woman War Movie

Author:Julie Delpy

“I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.”

Years Stills Impressed Old Woman

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.”

World Years Views Talking Known Grateful Teenager Sixty Old Woman Incorporating Music Making Recording Music

Author:Annie Lennox

“As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.”

Years Kids Speak Mouths Teeth Gaps Annoying Shifting Old Woman Adorable Whistling

Author:Mindy Kaling

“When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If you're a 29-year-old woman, having a baby is going to seriously blow up your career. If you're a 29-year-old man, it isn't.”

Ifs Men Want Years Children Asks Careers Baby Economics Blow Old Man Old Woman Having A Baby Single Man

Author:Stephen Marche

“We have brands spending ungodly amounts of money on print, television, outdoor radio, programmatic banner ads, website takeovers. Garbage. When I say garbage, they work-ish. They're just so overpriced. I don't know what else to say. I do not believe that it is worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars in distribution and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost to make one 30-second video to tell a 29-year-old woman that your soap is great, in a world where she is not going to consume that commercial.”

World Believe Print Website Old Woman Banner

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“What I think of sometimes, as I read the new books - do kids really need to see such a seamy side of life? I'm in the minority, such an old woman, perhaps. I love the books that have given kids joy, that give them hope at the end. Sometimes it seems to me the books right now are very depressive.”

Thinking Giving Book Sometimes Kids Joy Old Woman Depressive

Author:Patricia Reilly Giff

“The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in. The beginning makes no sense whatsoever. It just, like, rhymes. And then all of a sudden I'll go into, I am an old woman named after my mother.”

Thinking Writing Kind Mother Song Rhyme Old Woman

Author:John Prine

“During the mourning period after my father passed, his friends and colleagues were saying there was no way the business would survive. There was no way that a 27-year-old woman could run a company. I was so pissed that this was a conversation during a mourning period, and that a woman who was educated and working at a high level at the company wasn't considered for leadership. This was my father's life work, something I was completely connected to, and I knew I could take the reins.”

Running Father Educated Mourning Old Woman

Author:Julie Smolyansky

“Grace Bell lived in Belhaven, North Carolina her entire life, all 100 years of her life. Just a few weeks ago Republicans challenged her voter registration status and tried to remove her from the voter rolls. Now Grace got her voter registration reinstated. And you better believe she`s going to vote. But this 100-year old woman wasn`t alone in being targeted. The list of voters Republicans tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic. That didn`t happen by accident.”

Believe Black Grace Week Republican Vote Democratic Old Woman

Author:Barack Obama

“Femenizm for me is equal opportunities for everyone on the planet. If women are going to prostitute themselves, men should as well. There should be more male hookers. And eighteen-year-old women should demand satisfaction from their men.”

Men Opportunity Equal Old Woman Equal Opportunity

Author:Radha Mitchell

“In Yale they convinced me I had no talent, even though I was always working. They cast me mostly as prostitutes and old women, and I stayed because I loved the writers. I loved Chris Durang and Wendy Wasserstein. I was always doing their work in the Yale Cabaret.”

Talent Old Woman Wendy Cabaret

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“I don't go to parties even when I'm invited. I've always been an 80-year-old woman inside. I remember going to my first school dance petrified. I just wanted to leave. Like, This is cool, but I'm ready to go home now.”

Home School Remember Party Old Woman

Author:Zendaya

“I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.”

Trying Years Song Originals Hip Hop Hips Queens Hops Old Woman

Author:Patti LaBelle

“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

“I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”

“There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.”

Ifs Years Interesting Roles Old Woman Julia

Author:Amanda Peet

Old Woman Quotes

Related topics

Old Woman Quotes