Old Things Quotes

"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

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

She watched the sun bleed water out of the icicle. Warm and cold working together to make an icicle. Warm and cold anger working together to make a fury, a fury worthy enough to use as a weapon against the old things that still needed fighting.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

Nothing is going to stay the same; nothing's gonna sound like in 1952. There's some stuff that has some elements of back in the day, like back in the 90's, back in the 80's or whatever. Some elements, but it's not going to be the same, exactly, sounding. And I love it, I've seen the music change. I've seen the flow and the energy go from turned up to turned down to back to turned up. I like to try different stuff. I don't like to do the same old thing over and over again. I don't like to be repetitive, that gets on my nerves.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.

The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.

Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

I'm an old bag - I like old things.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.