Manolo Blahnik Quotes

The advice of elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Even my stuntman is old.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

I feel old.

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.