Franklin P. Jones Quotes

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

I wouldn't call myself a dinosaur.

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

I'm old-school.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'

I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

I'm an aging show pony and they trot me out here and there.

If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.