Old Things Quotes

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

  Hal Hartley

  Way, Same Old Thing, Findings

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Science, Investing

  “FBI revisiting Clinton emails just latest in long history of 'October Surprises“ by Chad Pergram, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2016.

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

  Robert Bresson

  Novelty, Surround, Ifs

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.27, New York Review of Books

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

  Tacitus

  Time, Age, Aging

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• Funny how the new things are the old things.

  Rudyard Kipling

  New Things

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.3064, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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

  Kami Garcia

  Stories, New Things

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2009). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mirrors, Views, People

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

  Steve Lacy

  Music, Sound, Jazz

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• Everybody is doing the same old thing.

  Missy Elliot

  Same Old Thing

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• Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

  Josh Lanyon

  Book, Vintage, Antiques

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• I'm an old bag - I like old things.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Bags

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

  William J. Clinton

  Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.167, Best Books on

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

  R. K. Milholland

  Going Away, Needs, Rooms

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• Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Glowing, Hands

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Thomas Cole

  All Alone, Ifs

  Thomas Cole, Louis Legrand Noble (1853). “The Course of Empire: Voyage of Life, and Other Pictures of Thomas Cole, N.A., with Selections from His Letters and Miscellaneous Writings: Illustrative of His Life, Character, and Genius”, p.81

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• New things are always better than old things.

  Andy Warhol

  New Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

  Marc Almond

  Past, Thinking, Cities

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Ethel M. Dell

  Political, Needs, World

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• The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

  Mason Cooley

  Routine, Champagne, Same Old Thing

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

  Seth

  Change, Sometimes, Advantage

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sweet, Health, Teeth

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.23, Nayika Publishing

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

  Charles Kettering

  Obsolescence, New Things, Factors

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• You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it?
  How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?
  The answer lies in the return.
  You will not come back to the 'same old thing.
  What you return to has changed because you have changed.
  Your perceptions will be altered.
  You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind.
  The river has been flowing while you were gone.
  Now it does not look like the same river.

  Stephen Foster

  Change, Encouragement, Lying

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Fundraising, Be Prepared, Prepared

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• Alone with our madness and favorite flower
  We see that there really is nothing left to write about.
  Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things
  In the same way, repeating the same things over and over
  For love to continue and be gradually different.

  John Ashbery

  Love, Flower, Writing

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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