Top 1200 Same Old Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

One thing about dead people, they're all the same.

Possibilities and miracles mean the same thing

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you

When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.

I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do.

You know why stardom screws up people ? Because it gives you too many choices. As a 20-year-old I was making as much money as, well, as much money as it was possible for a 20-year-old to make in India. That sort of thing could drive people nuts. But I put my in money in the bank.

Because when you work with a different team, the expectations are different and then you deliver in a very different way. You look back at it and you're proud of yourself. And when the same people come in and you do the same thing, it's boring. You could re-envision it again and again but when the new chemistry of ideas comes in, something happens as a team.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

I have a four-year-old son, and he is the most important thing in the world to me.

I do the same thing every night, but different.

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

I'm convinced we all are voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There's an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want to know: What do humans do? Do they do the same things as I do? It's a gaining of some sort of knowledge, I think.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.

Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.

I still feel like everybody else, that I'm just growing and learning. Basically, I feel pleased to have discovered this thing that's inside me, that's connected to the same thing that's inside everybody and everything.

If you do the same thing all the time, it's not very challenging.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

Going out at Old Trafford is a massive thing and I can't let that pressure get to me.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

Knowing is the same thing as the inner voice.

Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.

When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as an actor and I think it can take a toll on your ability to act, which I think is scary.

There was a point of time when there wasn't anything new coming to me, but the same old scripts. But, the script of 'Thira' motivated me.

I always wear the same thing onstage.

We are all saying the same thing in different words.

We are just coming out of a 100-year stupor from being lied to by the tobacco industry for a century about the effects on young people, on cancer, these candy cigarettes that they promised had nothing to do with kids, Joe Camel that they promised was focused on the, you know, 55-year-old white male smoker, which we know is wrong. And we finally got out of that. Why in the world would we want to create the same thing, just not Big Tobacco this time, Big Marijuana?

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.

It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kids.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

I don't always just want to do the same thing.

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

I think all people who've been on 'Strictly' like to talk to others who've been on the show and share their experience. And it's always exactly the same. You go through the same emotions. It never quite leaves you. It's always just here somewhere. It's a real magical thing to have taken part in. It's not so much a job - it's more of an experience.

When I was eight years old to be a spaceman was the most exciting thing I could imagine.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

The only thing that stays the same is change.

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

People say, 'You're old.' Old ain't nothing. You've got new cars that break down and old cars that pass them.

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.

I am gratified on a regular basis by the people I meet all across the country who dedicate their efforts to protecting the environment and public health and are making a difference. The great thing about working on important issues is all of the other people you meet doing the same thing.

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

Popular and good and bad is not the same thing.

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.