Old Time quotes

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
-- Amor Towles

#Father #Used #Old Time
There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!
-- Booth Tarkington

#Gone #Old Time
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
-- Buster Keaton

#Window #Old Time #Persons
Quite like old times,' the room says.
-- Jean Rhys

#Rooms #Old Time
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
-- Julia Ward Howe

#Massachusetts #Conventions #Old Time
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
-- Martin Scorsese

#Directors #Old Time #Wanted
I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.
-- Erro

#New York #Memories #Old Time

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.
I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.
You don't systematically disagree with the President of the United States or intervene in American politics and expect that he is going to bless your name.
My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money.
When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?
I don't understand computers. I don't even understand people who understand computers.
We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking about the economy is to imagine it as a living organism.
I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.