Top 1200 Old Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.

I don't want to be like the angry old guy in the corner who is always ranting and raving about the same things - but I don't mind doing that just a little bit!

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.

Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.

Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Sometimes I don't fully accept it. It's tough. I miss doing old things. I miss shooting hoops with my friends.

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,' or go back to an old, beaten path - do some smaller things that I haven't done in 15 or 20 years. Just to sort of get my feet wet, because I haven't done my own material for a couple of years - I've been doing a lot of other things.

The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.

I'm always learning and you are never too old to stop learning new things and improve your game.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

At 13 years old, I was doing grown-man things, so I know who I am, and I'm telling people who I am.

There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.

It truly amazes me all the things you can add and mix in to truly transform a plain old bowl of oatmeal.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black shows were better than the white shows. "The Jeffersons" (1975) was a lot better. "Good Times" (1974) was way funnier. "Sanford and Son" (1972). Now, though, everyone thinks we're equal, so we submit the same shit that everyone else submits. And then we get mad when they won't air it. You got to go back to the old attitude of it has to be twice as good.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!

I remember telling ghost stories with my cousins when I was four, five, six-years-old. I've just always loved it. But I think you're drawn to things you're terrified of.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

I'm an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

My parents aren't the demographic for a lot of things I do. If I did a stand-up show, and I saw 62-year-old Pakistanis in the crowd, I'd be like, 'I'm gonna bomb.'

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.

Everyone goes through those stretches. Everyone you talk to in this game, old coaches, old teammates, old players, whatnot, they all have those, 'Oh, I was 0-for-25, I was 0-for-30 one time.' I just try to not to get it that far, get it to that point and take it one at-bat as a time.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

I think the reality is that, for me, real fur is extraordinarily old fashioned. I think you look old. Even if you're 20, and you've got a real fur coat, you just look like an old, unaware, unconscious being on the planet. It's not relevant, it's not sexy, it's not fashionable, and it's not cool.

To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

My grandmother started my interest in secret doors, trying to find things she lost, and we found an old letter in a great bookcase with a round facade.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

Mainly horror movies and exploitation movies and a lot of stuff comes from those press books from those old movies. Lines out of old movies, comic books that we collect, all the old horror comics of the 50s, probably about the only comics that we collect are obscure horror comics, the real sick ones from the 50s. Some stuff comes from there but mainly just old records, old rockabilly records and that stuff, singles mainly, 45s.