Old Days Quotes - Page 6

• In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

  James Belushi

  Real, House, Intellectual

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• The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

  Laurie Colwin

  People, Guilt, Dinner

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• Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

  David Talbot

  Regret, Yes And No, Done

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• Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Talking, Athletic

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• In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

  Joichi Ito

  Adults, Today, Rest Of Your Life

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• Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

  Joichi Ito

  School, Independent, College

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• Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

  Illmaculate

  Weed, Rap, Smoking

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• There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

  Tim Wise

  Thinking, White, Remember

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• For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Love Is, Dust

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

  Mark Twain

  Block, Sleep, Names

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• In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Yield, Land

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• I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Wife, Dating, Making Love

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• When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

  Edvard Grieg

  Real, Mean, Young Friends

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• Don't focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days.

  Joel Osteen

  Heartbroken, New Day, Focus

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• Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Wow, Looking Back

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• In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.

  William H. Gass

  Ambition, Thinking, Together

  "William Gass, The Art of Fiction No. 65". Interview with Thomas LeClair, www.theparisreview.org. Summer 1977.

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• Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fun, Plato, Soul

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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Old Things, Together Again, Elements

  Peter A. Clayton, Joseph Campbell (1994). “Great figures of mythology”, Gramercy

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• The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Writing, Talking

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• The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Book, Long

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting, and I’m sick of the whole ‘my gun will solve all’ mentality. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Warrior, Gun

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.12, Macmillan

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• In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  George Eliot (2014). “Silas Marner”, p.112, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.

  A. A. Milne

  Doors, Piglet, Letters

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• When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise he would've dissolved. I had seen Annabeth, and I had a feeling he had too. He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me—of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. Hurting Annabeth in battle had shocked him into remembering that promise. It had allowed his mortal conscience to take over again, and defeat Kronos. His weak spot—his Achilles heel—had saved us all

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Rivers, Focus

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• In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Home, Men, New Day

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Manhunting”, p.188, HQN Books

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