Old Days Quotes - Page 3

• The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Song, Believe, New Day

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• It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dream, Orange, Dust

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

  Henri Poincare

  People, Mind, Function

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• Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Wife, Our Love

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

  Lee Iacocca

  Apples, Pie, Yards

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• The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the heck out of here!' today she says: 'Let's get the heck out of here! I've got claustrophobia.

  Robert Benchley

  Discovery, Atmosphere, Done

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.262, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Dog, Ordinary, Green

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• Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.

  Don Rickles

  Uncles, Latin, Names

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Heavyweights, Division

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• I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

  Pixie Lott

  Stars, Real, Long

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• It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

  Tim Winton

  Sadness, Weight, Hopeless

  Tim Winton (2014). “Cloudstreet: Picador Classic”, p.281, Pan Macmillan

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• In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

  Frank Abagnale

  Real, Men, People

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• Well digital media and social media are eliminating the middle man - in the old days, you had to go through the editors. Or the television producer, you know? Now you have people talking directly to each other, globally who have never met. I think you put the "word" in "word of mouth."

  Kelly Cutrone

  Men, Thinking, Talking

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• I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, "Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow, the good old days.' What, when certain people couldn't vote?" There was more work for musicians in the '40s, '50s, '60s. But I don't think it was ever easy.

  Jon Gordon

  Nice, Men, Thinking

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• I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking, Charging, Knows

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• In the old days when I was enforcing illegal immigration laws, when I had the authority from the 287G, everybody accused me that 100,000 people from foreign countries left town. They either went back to where they came from or whatever. So if this little old sheriff can cause, if you want to believe it, many, many people leaving and going back to their country, why can't you do that nationwide?

  Joe Arpaio

  Country, Believe, Law

  "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.

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• The Hillary Clinton story basically is this. And see how similar this sounds to the old days before the modern era of feminism raised its head. You're a girl, you're a young woman, what do you do? You go off to college. That's what she did. Why do you go? To meet your husband. That's what she did. She wouldn't be where she is if it weren't for her husband.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Husband, College

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Balance, Trying

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Missing, Middle East

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all these guys - in the old days, there were no women, except a makeup artist or, occasionally, a script supervisor. So there were just guys who taught me how to, you know, whittle wood, or how to pull focus, and what the camera was doing. And if I was being bratty, they'd sit me down and tell me. There were lots of rules about not being late and making sure that you didn't spill anything. So it felt a little bit like I was in a family.

  Jodie Foster

  Dad, Artist, Makeup

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was harvest time and the farmer was up in the tree picking apples and fell down and broke his leg, everybody pitched in and harvested his crops for him. If somebody got killed by a bear, everybody took care of their family.

  Benjamin Carson

  Apples, America, Harvest Time

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

  William Monahan

  Wake Up, Form, Myth

  Source: collider.com

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• I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days.

  Matt Sorum

  Simple, People, Trying

  "Guns and Roses Matt Sorum on Passion and Compassion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.

  Robert Hass

  Book, Long, People

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• We over-exaggerate yesterday. We either think it was better or worse than it was - you know, the good old days. We over-estimate tomorrow; we think we can do more than we can - always. And that's why we put off everything till tomorrow.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Yesterday, Tomorrow

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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