Old Days Quotes - Page 11

• The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Mean, Expression, People

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• I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

  Scott MacDonald

  Party, White, Athletic

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• I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so.

  Nelson Mandela

  Morning, Dust, Blood

  Nelson Mandela, Robin Malan (1997). “The Essential Nelson Mandela”, David Philip

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• Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Mother, Children, Father

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Mind, Flaws

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• It's a great time to be a comedian because you've got so much more control. You can say what you want to. I think in the old days with the studio system the performer was a bit of an afterthought. You can be a wildcard on the internet. But if you put something on the internet once it's out there it's out there for life.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Comedian, Want

  Interview with Bruce Dessau, www.beyondthejoke.co.uk. November 15, 2013.

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• Money is very useful in this particular world to buy you space. In the old days, there were not too many people on the planet. Today everybody owns the forests and woods and there are "No Trespassing" signs everywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

  John Humphrys

  Cynical, Television, Today

  "Savaging of 'seedy and cynical' TV" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2004.

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• In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed would have been the 1914 combination of Britain, France and Russia. Indeed, if such an alliance had acted decisively to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hitler might even have been overthrown by his own military. But it was not to be.

  Niall Ferguson

  Military, Ambition, Simple

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• In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

  Confucius

  Education, Men, Self

  Confucius (1973). “A book of heaven and the earth: stories from the Confucian analects”, Columbia Univ Pr

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• You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around.

  Jay Leno

  Justice, President, Way

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• We sometimes get lost in a bubble... when you get to a certain age you're always thinking about the old days and how it wasn't like that then. Well, yeah, that's great and it's very nostalgic and all that, but actually the world has moved on.

  Ray Winstone

  Thinking, Age, Moved On

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

  Ruth Gordon

  Abortion, Faces, Moral

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• I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.

  John Lennon

  Music, Song, Writing

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• The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

  John Lennon

  Music, Dream, Reality

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• Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

  Arabella Weir

  Feelings, These Days, Expected

  "I don't understand boys - they do things like stand in rivers waiting for fish they know won't come" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

  Bill Nighy

  Thinking, People, Theatre

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• Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

  Pete Seeger

  Kings, Queens, Europe

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Thinking, Gigs, Concerts

  Source: www.nola.com

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• Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

  Black Elk

  Strong, Native American, Circles

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

  Sue Grafton

  Pieces, Paper, Liquid

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• They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really valuable people and will have lots of money from now on and really cool people like Ethan Hawke will be dropping by all the time. But it's a lie. Being a published writer will make them long to be ONLY as mentally ill as they are now. Their current level of obsession and doubt and self-loathing will look like the good old days. Honest.

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Believe, Self

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• We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

  Flora Thompson

  Law, Purity, Goodness

  Flora Thompson (1986). “The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside”, David & Charles

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• Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.

  Richard Dawkins

  Wisdom, Mean, Dna

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