If you're an old geezer in his rocker on the porch, you don't play basketball with kids. Old geezers don't jump. You sit and make a virtue of what you have. And what you also do is this; you make the kids think that anyone, anyone can jump, but it takes a wise old buzzard to know how to sit there and rock.


England, England (1998)

Julian Barnes Quotes

If you're an old geezer in his rocker on the porch, you don't play basketball with kids. Old geezers don't jump. You sit and make a virtue of what...

If you're an old geezer in his rocker on the porch, you don't play basketball with kids. Old geezers don't jump. You sit and make a virtue of what...

If you're an old geezer in his rocker on the porch, you don't play basketball with kids. Old geezers don't jump. You sit and make a virtue of what...

If you're an old geezer in his rocker on the porch, you don't play basketball with kids. Old geezers don't jump. You sit and make a virtue of what...