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33 "Old Things" Quotes

"Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!"

--- Allen Ginsberg

#Soul #Sunflower #Battered

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

--- Ambrose Bierce

#Nothing New #Learning #Knows

"New things are always better than old things."

--- Andy Warhol

#New Things #Old Things

"It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do."

--- Anne Fadiman

#Middlemarch #December #Punctuality

"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."

--- Anthony Holden

#Accepting #Argument #Messengers

"Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!"

--- Arthur Hugh Clough

#Stills #Brother #Needs

"It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us"

--- Yasunari Kawabata

#Asks #Goes On #Tired

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

--- William J. Clinton

#Change #Life Changing #Higher

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

--- Benjamin Franklin

#Cold #Sweet #Hot

"In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?"

--- Billie Jean King

#Mean #All Time #Tennis

"It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance."

--- Billy Corgan

#Black Sabbath #Importance #Sabbath

"The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things."

--- Wallace Stevens

#People #New Things #Goes On

"Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things."

--- C. S. Lewis

#New Things #Failing #Loses

"And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing."

--- Tim Burton

#Tired #Kings #Pumpkin

"Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new."

--- Thomas Merton

#Thinking #New Things #Objective Reality

"American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that."

--- Channing Tatum

#Thinking #Little Bit #Fascinated

"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 #Old Things #Ifs

"Nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all."

--- Charles Bukowski

#Realizing #Dresses #Disguise

"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

#New Things #Values #Factors

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

--- Tacitus

#Time #Old Things #Aging

"I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing."

--- Chris Van Hollen

#Thinking #Security #Way

"More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again."

--- Cinda Williams Chima

#Known #Revelations #Long

"There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off."

--- Steve Yzerman

#People #Feels #Team

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

--- Steve Lacy

#Music #Jazz #Stills

"I don't like the same old thing all the time."

--- Cobi Jones

#Same Old Thing #Hairstyles #Old Things

"Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones, ditches, mounds, tumps, sacred wells, and that sort of thing. And, later on, with churches, market crosses, crossroads, and whatnot."

--- Stephen R. Lawhead

#Stones #Standing #Lines

"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 #Answers #New Beginnings

"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

#Reason #Made #Goes On

"When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper."

--- D. H. Lawrence

#Squirrels #Stamps #Passion

"We're constantly dealing with old problems under the circumstance of new variables, so just things like greed and fear and anger and inequality are issues that humanity has constantly dealt with. The parameters and the variables change but these are old things. And discussing those things is slightly more timeless rather than focusing on one tiny thing."

--- Dan Mangan

#Discussing #Circumstances #Parameters

"We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane."

--- Simon R. Green

#Dark Places #Rocks #Down And

"Can you find out how owns C and R industries? They bought the old abandoned mental asylum downtown." "That old thing? What are they going to do with it?" "I don't know. I was hoping their overcompensating sign would say, but it just says 'private property' and shouts lots of threats in capital letters, all of which I plan to completely ignore later."

--- Darynda Jones

#Private Property #Industry #Overcompensating

"At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin."

--- Seth Godin

#New Things #Alternatives #Firsts

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