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  • Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. -- Leon Wieseltier
  • Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind. -- Travis Tritt
  • Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. -- Paul Samuelson
  • Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. -- Matt Mullenweg
  • It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker. -- James McBride
  • As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky. -- Stephen Hunter
  • Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it. -- Tom Petty
  • Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that. -- Harvey Keitel
  • I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available. -- Craig Ferguson
  • Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
  • ...New Beginning to the same old story -- Neal Shusterman
  • It's the same old story, all you think about is money. -- Rafael Nadal
  • No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story. -- Jay McInerney
  • The first story I finished was when I was six years old. -- J. K. Rowling
  • Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that. -- David Soul
  • The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men. -- Siri Hustvedt
  • I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story. -- Nikki Giovanni
  • In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. -- Hermann Hankel
  • Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened. -- Anne Rice
  • The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. -- Ruth Rendell
  • As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story. -- Len Wiseman
  • I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story. -- Vera Nazarian
  •  My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet. -- Kathy Bates
  • The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. -- John Updike
  • Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me. -- Randy Johnson
  • I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one. -- Michelle Williams
  • I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell. -- David Levithan
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  • The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well? -- Ayn Rand
  • I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. -- Wilkie Collins
  • Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background. -- Kathy Reichs
  • New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours. -- Alex Morritt
  • Bones tell me the story of a person's life â?? how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background, -- Kathy Reichs
  • It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too. -- Gail Caldwell
  • The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning. -- Satish Kumar
  • Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold. -- Daniel Johnston
  • It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old. -- Dennis Rodman
  • Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new. -- Salman Rushdie
  • In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher. -- Evan Osnos
  • A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. -- Salman Rushdie
  • The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks. -- Eugene Burger
  • Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans. -- William McKeen
  • Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended. -- T. S. Eliot
  • My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves. -- Amanda Hocking
  • Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all. -- Frances Power Cobbe
  • The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells. -- Robert Macfarlane
  • I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried. -- Drew Carey
  • Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer. -- Jose Serrano
  • Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way. -- Vivian Mercier
  • And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard. -- Jessica Day George
  • Old people always tell you: 'When you've been around as long I have, then you can argue.' As soon as they're ripped off, it's a different story. -- Doug Stanhope
  • Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story. -- Ben Lovett
  • It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of do or die! The world will always welcome lovers As time goes by. -- Herman Hupfeld
  • If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune. -- Robert McKee
  • I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer. -- Andre Balazs
  • The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears." -- Kate DiCamillo
  • I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women! -- Isak Dinesen
  • It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I don't have any regrets about the album [ Veedon Fleece ]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do. -- Van Morrison
  • Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it. -- Michael Herr
  • Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress. -- Herbert M. Shelton
  • There's an old story about the person who wished his computer was as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone -- Bjarne Stroustrup
  • There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
  • More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story. -- David Blankenhorn
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