Old Picture Quotes

• Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

  Stephen Chbosky

  People, Looks, Photograph

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

  Iggy Pop

  Fun, Dresses, Looks

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• I go on the Internet and look at old pictures of myself, because it is the best reminder of how far I have come and where I do not want to be.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Looks, Goes On, Want

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• When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Thinking, Looks, Used

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

  Iris Murdoch

  Half, Figures, Backgrounds

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.38, Penguin

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• It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14

  Jennifer Connelly

  Talking, Age, Looks

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• Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.

  Diet Eman

  Christian, Giving, Life Is Like

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• I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.

  Big Sean

  Hate, Men, Google

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• Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonderful. They restore to us knowledge of a place we seek but lose in the rush of our search. Though to enjoy even the pictures, much less the space itself, requires that we be still longer than is our custom.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Space, Littles

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• Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Brain, Revision

  Siri Hustvedt (2008). “The Sorrows of an American: A Novel”, p.80, Macmillan

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• Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

  Piers Anthony

  Air, Water, Magic

  Piers Anthony (2002). “A Spell for Chameleon (Original Edition)”, p.124, Del Rey

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• I love all the old pictures - of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can't do spanking in fashion, so I wanted to do a project where I could really let go and get girls who also love those things.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Girl, Letting Go, Fashion

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• Sometimes you don't know if your memory is because you really experienced it or because you look at your old pictures. I have a nice picture of myself held up by my grandfather and my father standing next to me. We all have the same name - we're all called Anton Corbijn. That's something I cherish.

  Anton Corbijn

  Memories, Father, Nice

  "Anton Corbijn’s Spy Games". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2014.

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• If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Skins, Looks

  "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Nature, Real, Book

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• I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like its crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like its laughing. Nowadays, we would say, How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Two, Laughing, Tragedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn't toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence email, watched the phone praying it will ring; who doesn't lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else?

  Jess Walter

  Block, Crazy, Coffee

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• The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures of the world. New pictures cast their influence before facts can be seen in a different perspective.

  Niles Eldredge

  Expectations, Perspective, Perception

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• I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.

  Yusef Lateef

  African American, Flutes, Musician

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• Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.

  Niecy Nash

  Children, Memories, Worry

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• Peter Hinwood found all these old pictures - Polaroids - and when I saw them, I just didn't believe that the person in them was connected with me. I was in a hotel room with one of those front-and-back mirrors, and I thought, Who the hell is that? I used to be thin as a rake. I used to have the nice-shaped pecs. It's sad. No, it's not sad, it's the reality, and I've accepted this now.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Nice, Believe, Reality

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

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• Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle--almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.

  Matthew Quick

  Blue, Yellow, People

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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