Quotes by category:Old Things

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!

Mikhail Bulgakov

old-things jobs men

Everybody is doing the same old thing. by Missy Elliot

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

same-old-thing old-things

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

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

old-things sun ideas

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

old-things increase chance

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

old-things women goodbye

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I dont necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

old-things heart years

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing go... by Peter Fonda

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

old-things simple age

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

R. K. Milholland

old-things going-away needs

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

old-things being-single being-yourself

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

old-things leaving smoking

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

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.

Richard Harding Davis

old-things secret writing

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

old-things tired thinking

People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: "you're not fooling anyone", they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. That's the way- not orthodox, I don't live by "the rules" you know.

old-things rock-and-roll rocks

"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing." by Robert Baden-Powell

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

Robert Baden-Powell

fundraising be-prepared old-things

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surro... by Robert Bresson

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

surround old-things novelty

Funny how the new things are the old things. by Rudyard Kipling

Funny how the new things are the old things.

Rudyard Kipling

new-things old-things

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.

old-things littles art

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

old-things change sometimes

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

old-things alternatives needs

Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones, ditches, mounds, tumps, sacred wells, and that sort of thing. And, later on, with churches, market crosses, crossroads, and whatnot.

Stephen R. Lawhead

old-things church men

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