All Quotes

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.
‐‐ Bee Wilson

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
‐‐ Rose Schneiderman

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
‐‐ Lytton Strachey

The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's 'public pages,' but those represent a tiny fraction of the 'pages' on Faceboo, and are not informed by the crucial signals of identity and relationship which give those pages meaning.
‐‐ John Battelle

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
‐‐ Lucinda Williams

The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.
‐‐ Mitch Leigh

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
‐‐ Erich Auerbach

The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family.
‐‐ Lindsay Fox

The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry.
‐‐ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
‐‐ Jack Huston

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
‐‐ Shelley Berman

The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.
‐‐ Peter York

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
‐‐ Livy

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.
‐‐ Dick Morris

The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.
‐‐ Margaret Keane

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
‐‐ David Hackworth

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
‐‐ Richard H. Davis

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
‐‐ Oliver Joseph Lodge

'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.
‐‐ Suzanne Fields

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
‐‐ Anna Julia Cooper

The old swashbuckling days of the playboy ship owner, of the fellow with no cares in the world who does multimillion dollar deals over coffee, are gone.
‐‐ Helmut Sohmen

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
‐‐ Tom Baker

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
‐‐ A. A. Milne

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.
‐‐ David Jeremiah

The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry.
‐‐ Chris Toumazou

The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.
‐‐ Bill Medley

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.
‐‐ Jennifer Ehle

The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.
‐‐ Michael J. Saylor

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
‐‐ Jim Talent

The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.
‐‐ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
‐‐ Olivia Thirlby

The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.
‐‐ Phoebe Philo

The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, that's what I want to do. If it's a challenge and a massive risk and I'm going out on a limb ... those are the ones I want. And they are few and far between. I don't work very much because I'm very specific about what I want to do.
‐‐ Alaina Huffman

The older I get, I guess I wear less sparkles.
‐‐ Blake Lively

The older I get, I'm definitely getting pulled towards the West Coast, because it's a different quality of life. New York is great when you're in your early 20s and you're running around and it's really fun, but it's a place for me to get things done.
‐‐ Erin Wasson

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

The older I get, the better I used to be.
‐‐ John McEnroe

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony