Old Things Quotes - Page 2

My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

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

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.

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

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

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

I'm an old bag - I like old things.

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.

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

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

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

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

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

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.

I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

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

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.

What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live very high off the work, invention, and creativity of very many others. It is the Grand Larceny of our particular time in history, the Grand Larceny in which a future of freedom which could have followed the collapse of feudalism was stolen from under our noses by a new bunch of bosses doing the same old things

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

You are [as an actor] aware that you don't want to repeat stuff, but you want to use what has worked. But you don't want to be accused of just going over the old thing, you know? You want it to start growing a little bit more.

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.