Words matter. These are the best Old Days Quotes from famous people such as Albert Ellis, Robbie Williams, Eddie Vedder, Alexandra Patsavas, Sheila Hancock, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
I feel like I’m always having to justify why I haven’t kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I’m like that with anybody. I don’t let anybody in. I just rely on myself.
People say, ‘How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?’ No – you just become a faster songwriter… In the old days, you’d be like, ‘Oh I’m gonna work on this song for a few days.’
In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it’s seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn’t have ordinarily come across their genre of music.
In the old days I’d like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I did a lot of campaigning.
I don’t do nostalgia. The phrase ‘the good old days’ never passes my lips.
Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.
When I drink a little, I sometimes recall my old days. Then I ask myself, ‘What does Roh Moo-hyun mean in my life?’ He really defined my life. My life would have changed a lot if I didn’t meet him. So he is my destiny.
The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call ‘the good old days.’ Fans want the best, wherever they come from.
In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it’s all up to you.
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
Back in the old days, guys used to wreck hotel rooms and trash rental cars and all that dumb stuff. When I came into wrestling, they were like, ‘We’re out of cars. You’re one of those wrestlers. No, we’re not renting a car to you.’ It was like that. We had to re-create, re-establish the trust.
So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.
In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It’s become a real sports event with sports fans now.
I’ve thrown away lots of my old diaries – you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what’s more, they weren’t expected to.
Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.
In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
I think jamming is the way we begin to communicate. In the old days, people actually wrote notes on paper and sent them to each other. I guess that’s how they jammed.
The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.
Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn’t work, you didn’t get paid.
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
When Photoshop came around, I thought I’d died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, ‘Oh, the good old days’ or ‘I’m old school,’ I just want to puke. There’s no tool I won’t use.
Our dad is not one to impart advice or gloat or reminisce about the good old days. But he’s a race car guy, been a car guy forever, and he always wants to talk about cars.
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
In the old days, all the movie songs were recorded right there on set.
I don’t think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don’t have monopolies out there, so that people don’t have a chance to compete fairly.
Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‘Boy, those were great old days.’ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.
It’s such an awkward, strange thing that was concocted, to have auditions. Back in the old days, you’d just have a screen test, and they’d say, ‘Oh, you seem natural in front of the camera,’ and you’d just go do 10 pictures for Paramount or whatever.
The record companies don’t give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, ‘Here’s a pile of money. Go make a good record!’
In the old days, ‘controversial’ in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.
I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple.
In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.
When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?
Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the old days when drag was fun, not personal.
I have positive feelings about the old days and the way you did things, but that’s sort of like feeling nostalgic for the heyday of the Detroit auto industry. Just because it was done doesn’t mean it couldn’t be improved upon.
Sotomayor’s vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as ‘a wise Latina’ trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment – a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It’s a totally different ballgame now.
Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.
I feel like in the old days, it was once it’s a divorce, it’s a constant fight until they die. That’s how my mom and dad lived. They didn’t talk to each other. They hated each other. They only spoke through lawyers. It’s just a horrible way to live.
I wasn’t around in the old days, but if you look at guys from the 70s, 80s and 90s, back then these guys were the kind of guys that if you walked up to them in a bar you would not go up to them and talk trash to.
In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it’s not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.
What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They’d have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.
I’m constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.
The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn’t laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
When we think of memetic culture, it is the ‘sausage factory’ of the old days.
In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
Think ‘Game of Thrones.’ In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn’t really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it’s structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.
In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, ‘Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.’
What I love about Encores! is that it’s a tremendous amount of work in a short amount of time, but it’s just so festive and so celebratory and fun. It harkens back to the old days of just getting together and putting on a show.
In the old days, talent owned their costumes, their intellectual property, their gimmicks. They were not employees and could wrestle anywhere they wanted to, and that just is not case in today’s WWE.
God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don’t miss them.
In the old days, you cut out a scene that might’ve been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously… there’s a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.
