All Quotes

In the old days you could do re-runs, and people would have to watch that because there's nothing else. But with Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, Xbox, as well as premium and regular cable, it's very hard to do that.
‐‐ Jeffrey Bell

In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.
‐‐ Pete Rose

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!
‐‐ James Belushi

In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.
‐‐ Kate Bernheimer

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
‐‐ Bill Gates

In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
‐‐ Mary Quant

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.
‐‐ Rick Warren

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it's personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

In the olden days, a couple could be in every movie together, but it's just not like that anymore.
‐‐ Blake Lively

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
‐‐ Leonard Bernstein

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.
‐‐ Ravi Shankar

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.
‐‐ Leo Durocher

In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as 'the people of peace,' 'the little people,' and 'the good neighbors.'
‐‐ Holly Black

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
‐‐ Pierre de Coubertin

In the Olympics, everything goes back to square one. The world champion or the world record holder or the ninth last year are fighting for the same medal, and you have got to go there like it was the first time.
‐‐ Cesar Cielo

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
‐‐ J. L. Austin

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
‐‐ Joanna Scott

In the ongoing effort to combat Ebola, more needs to be done to rewrite the public-health narrative. It must move from one that has been infused with fear to one that recognizes the hope for survival that supportive care can offer infected people.
‐‐ Joanne Liu

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.
‐‐ Godfrey Reggio

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.
‐‐ Simon Greenleaf

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
‐‐ E. Stanley Jones

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.
‐‐ Richard Attias

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.
‐‐ Rosamund Pike

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.
‐‐ Paul Reiser

In the original 'Guild Wars,' one of the big conflicts was the humans versus the charr. The humans and charr are both playable races in 'Guild Wars 2,' and they are on the same side, more or less. They don't hate each other.
‐‐ Jeff Grubb

In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor of a 'virus.' So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
‐‐ Eddie Murphy

In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to where they need to go. I always liked that robot because I could imagine how to build it - and it served a real purpose.
‐‐ Colin Angle

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.
‐‐ Paul Rand

In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.
‐‐ Doc Hastings

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.
‐‐ James E. Faust

In the Palestinian camps in the Seventies, I fell in love with a woman fighter - now married with six kids, not mine! - and I seriously considered staying there with her.
‐‐ George Galloway

In the panic of 1819, the protectionists stressed the lack of consumer markets abroad and the necessity for building up a market at home. The inflationists, on the other hand, stressed the shortage of money capital available to manufacturers as a cause of the crisis.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
‐‐ Ed Harris

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.
‐‐ Jinato Hu

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.
‐‐ Azar Nafisi

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.
‐‐ Tom Vilsack

In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
‐‐ David Gerrold

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
‐‐ Ken Blanchard

In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.
‐‐ Roone Arledge

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.
‐‐ Palmer Luckey

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
‐‐ Olafur Eliasson