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An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. -- Robert Bresson
Funny how the new things are the old things. -- Rudyard Kipling
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. -- Tacitus
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever. -- Steve Lacy
Everybody is doing the same old thing. -- Missy Elliot
Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan. -- Kami Garcia
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. -- Paul Klee
Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation. -- George Raveling
One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing. -- Mark Batterson
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
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. -- Richard Harding Davis
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. -- Fran Lebowitz
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
I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things. -- Marc Almond
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
The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of. -- Marshall McLuhan
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
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
The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse. -- H. P. Lovecraft
I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new. -- Jaquelin T. Robertson
If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new. -- Russell Johnson
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. -- Emily Carr
When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time. -- Dita Von Teese
I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things. -- John Darnielle
One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States. -- Bill Bryson
Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides. -- John Raleigh Mott
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s. -- Kim Gordon
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it. -- Jonathan Stroud
But time growing old teaches all things. -- Aeschylus
Old guys can still do fun things. -- George H. W. Bush
I grow old, ever learning many things. -- Solon
New things are always better than old things. -- Andy Warhol
I would fain grow old learning many things. -- Plato
I'm too old to do crazy things anymore. -- Rick James
I'm too old to do things by half -- Lou Reed
We continue to think of new things in old ways. -- James Harvey Robinson
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. -- Sophocles
I've been doing old-people things since I was a child. -- Martha Plimpton
God always does His new things in the same old way. -- Fred A. Hartley, Jr.
An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid. -- Markus Zusak
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear. -- Shirley Temple
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. -- Henry Ward Beecher
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I like fixin' up old cars and doing things with my family. -- Grandmaster Flash
Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch. -- Jason Bateman
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and the old sheep. -- Miguel de Cervantes
However old we become, there will always remain some things young within ourselves! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it... -- Ron Atkinson
Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective. -- Alexander William Gaskarth
We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things. -- Hal Hartley
Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective. -- Alexander William Gaskarth
It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear. -- Jonathan Evison
forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age. -- Peg Bracken
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. -- Walter Savage Landor
Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results. -- Robin Sharma
I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money. -- Curt Schilling
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. -- Rick Allen
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. -- Leon Trotsky
I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. -- Bindi Irwin
Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things -- John Schuerholz
it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I love old funky things. Color just makes me happy, and things all lined up. -- Bobbi Brown
There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.' -- Robert A. Heinlein
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. -- Jean Racine
I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. -- James Thurber
I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds. -- Bradford Cox
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself." -- Josh Lanyon
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself. -- Josh Lanyon
Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things. -- Sandra Bullock
Hopefully I'm not a grumpy old guy sitting in the corner, yelling at people and demanding things. -- George W. Bush
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away. -- Benjamin Franklin
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. -- Charles Kettering
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old -- Leon Trotsky
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. -- Ambrose Bierce
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off. -- George Eliot
I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives. -- Candace Bushnell
I had been going on auditions and things like that since I was probably 10-11 years old. -- Regina King
I'm an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me. -- Whitney Houston
You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old. -- John Brunner
When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things. -- Dwight Henry
I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address. -- Sylvia Plath
I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that. -- Mavis Staples
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things. -- C. S. Lewis
I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me. -- Doseone
For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike. -- Herodotus
What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty. -- Jay Mohr
Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. -- Myrtle Reed
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. -- Robert Herrick
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain -- Lord Byron
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. -- Sherwood Anderson
I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one. -- Michelle Williams
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.] -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors. -- Laura Miller
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things. -- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be. -- Bill Ayers
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. -- Vinton Cerf
Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new. -- Cesare Pavese
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world. -- Booth Tarkington
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. -- Aristotle
It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse. -- Martha Stewart
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends. -- Rachel Field
The things I have are nameless, old and true; they may not be named; few may live and know. -- Hilda Doolittle
The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing. -- Patricia McConnell
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. -- Bill Bryson
I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
Besides, old ladies are always right. That's how they get to be so old. It's one of those things. -- Ian Kelsey
If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber. -- Neil Gaiman
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. -- Philip Caputo
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. -- Confucius
I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that. -- Geezer Butler
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. -- Michael Helm
It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over? -- Mike Quade
I've heard 14 year old meth addicted thai prostitutes say more prescient things than the woman that was supposedly a "professor -- Tucker Max
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things? -- Juvenal
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. -- Neil Innes
Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision. -- Bill Drayton

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