Old Time Quotes - Page 4

• When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements … while remaining heedless of the world’s barbarism. I don’t say things have got worse; I merely say the young wouldn’t notice if they had. The old times were good because then we were young, and ignorant of how ignorant the young can be.

  Julian Barnes

  Regret, Thinking, Ignorant

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me.

  Jean Rhys

  Goodbye, Song, Fate

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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• In the Sixties, it was mods and rockers, and hippies and casuals, whereas in the early Eighties, there was Goths, punks, mods, skinheads, New Romantics, casuals, metal heads... the streets looked completely different. You go into town now and you can't tell one kid from another - you don't know what they're into. You can sort of tell a skateboard kid because his trousers are half way down his legs, but that's about it. Back then, people wore their hearts on their sleeves. It was a really bold time.

  Shane Meadows

  Hippie, Heart, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times.

  Janet Evanovich

  Running, Car, Pavement

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. May we be moved with compassion as our Lord was. May we shed tears of repentance for these we have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha

  Nate Saint

  Crush, Christian, Night

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• No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands,
  I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands,
  suburban places got me seeking for an oasis, cristal by the cases, ladies of all races with dime faces, sex on the white sand beaches of Saint Thomas, though this ain't promised,
  I'm as determined as them old timers.

  Eminem

  Beach, Sex, Cutting

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• It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

  Mike Royko

  Sports, Baseball, Female

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• The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Night, Air

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Drinking, Men, Facts

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss." Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. Find your own way and make your own contribution. Find a way to make a contribution to this society because God knows we need contributions from the coming generation. This planet and this civilization is in need. I see it as a time of need.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Civilization, People, Needs

  Interview with Karleigh Moore, tech.mit.edu. April 1, 2014.

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• The sunlight on the garden
  Hardens and grows cold,
  We cannot cage the minute
  Within its nets of gold

  Louis MacNeice

  Time, Garden, Gold

  'Sunlight on the Garden' (1938)

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• You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

  Marie Lloyd

  Home, Way, Copper

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• Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever taken of the old-time chiefs with some of their best words. You can meet these old-timers and share their wisdom. People who read this book will better understand our sacred ways.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Spiritual, Taken, Book

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• In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

  John Jewel

  Religion, Golden, Priests

  'Certain Sermons Preached Before the Queen's Majesty' (1609) p. 176

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• It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

  Thomas Keneally

  Peace, Earth, Lasts

  Thomas Keneally (1982). “Schindler's list”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for.

  Ne-Yo

  Mean, Writing, People

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• The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an expert in classical music. I don't want to say something that ends up in print and somebody comes running after me with a shovel, but they're taught for each note to stand alone in a very deliberate kind of way, which is really different than how notes are strung together in old-time music to create rhythm.

  Bruce Molsky

  Running, Together, Experts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The toughest nights when I was a young, unknown comedian were opening for these real old-time Italian singers. I'm like Grace Jones to them. "This guy is nuts-talking about socks. Where's the wife jokes, where's the fat jokes?"

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Real, Night

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• So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

  Ava Gardner

  Lust, Gold, Nuggets

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• ... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

  William James

  Earth, Reincarnation

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber,” she explained. “There’s a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere—it doesn’t all get used up at once.” “I may still be hung over,” sighed Richard. “That almost made sense.

  Neil Gaiman

  Amber, May, Littles

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• I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.

  Will Sheff

  Real, Writing, Artist

  Source: www.spin.com

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• If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Nostalgia, Window, Partnership

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• Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.

  Ralph Stanley

  Years, Play, Rays

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen.

  Wilhelm II

  Powerful, Citizens, World

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