Words matter. These are the best Old-Fashioned Quotes from famous people such as Jerry Hall, Hillary Scott, Jim Lehrer, Lauren Ambrose, Maxwell Jacob Friedman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have very old-fashioned tastes.
I’m kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers… Or doesn’t answer.
One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.
I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.
Just let me give you a regular, good old-fashioned body slam in the ring. You won’t be able to walk for a week. I’m a superman.
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.
I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases… is an old-fashioned idea.
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother’s hand making sure I was settled in bed.
We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a ‘wanton woman.’
There’s a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school trauma.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother has to be plain. Mothers cannot be exciting. Mother should not be up on what’s going on; she shouldn’t know the jargon of the day. And I just find that so old-fashioned!
No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.
I don’t think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was reading at what age. It’s more of an intellectual thing of wanting to be free to write and think without being too bound by categorisation. I don’t think I’m made for these times; I feel more like an old-fashioned writer.
Maybe it’s old-fashioned, but I’ve always preferred to see players with my own eyes than on a video or going on somebody else’s recommendation. If that means getting up early and taking a flight, then so be it. Our success at Everton came from having a great recruitment team who I made sure were out watching the players.
I really don’t think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you’re finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.
As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you’re not able to use the equipment, so you’d have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
I’ve got quite an old-fashioned figure. Back in the Sixties, girls had boobs, a tummy and wide hips, and bigger thighs as well. I think that’s sexy – to me, that’s what a woman looks like. I’ve got love handles – sometimes they’re passion handles! I’m built for comfort, not for speed, and I like that about myself.
Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It’s a face that is searching and open and kind. It’s a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
I’m a little old-fashioned.
I’m an old-fashioned guy.
Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way – through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.
I grew up in a very white, privileged, old-fashioned society in South Africa and went to a boarding school run by nuns.
I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.
The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn’t want to do old-fashioned.
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. ‘Parlors’ would be appropriate, or ‘dens’ – words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.
I will jump on anybody’s private plane at the drop of a hat. I’m an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
I’ve always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you’ve got scoundrels in office, you vote ’em out.
I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.
I guess I’m old-fashioned.
Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that’s very old-fashioned. There’s a whole new generation of people who aren’t defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.
We’ll have to wait the old-fashioned way.
All I care about is that people who like me think I’m funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.
It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‘don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.’
I like good manners, old-fashioned courting, I like being wooed.
If you looked at the sound pattern of an old-fashioned record, it would be very spikey. But nowadays, there’s no spikes – everything looks like a brick, so the quiet bits become louder. It’s actually damaging because it’s like listening to a drill.
We have this wonderful language and we don’t appreciate it. That’s old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.
My nanna was an extraordinary lady, and a good old-fashioned cook. She’d just be pottering around, cooking dinner for 25 people on a wood-fired stove without a problem.
In this day and age, when no one can agree on anything, I think it’s important that people can come home and turn on the TV and have some good old-fashioned laughs.
I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can’t have clean Converse – I go in the dirt and run around!
Go to The Spaniards Inn on Hampstead Heath. It’s an old-fashioned pub, and from there, you can look out over the London skyline.
My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I’m more old-fashioned in a certain sense.
What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don’t want to do things on the Internet.
I’m a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.
I’m an old-fashioned girl.
I like the old-fashioned, vintage-inspired swimsuits with halters and maybe a little ruching, and the longer cut that’s almost short-shorts, like Ava Gardner used to wear a lot, right?
Look around. There are no enemies here. There’s just good, old-fashioned rivalry.
I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you’re really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.
Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
My grandma was so old-fashioned. She thought we were supposed to have homework every night. I would come home, and she would be like, ‘Where’s your homework?’ and I’d be like, ‘I don’t have none.’ She’d be like, ‘I’ma call your teacher.’
If we’re going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can’t just conserve our way out; we can’t just drill our way out; we can’t bomb our way out. We’re going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we’re going to invent our way out, working together.
I’m old-fashioned that way. I don’t believe you turn the president down.
I’m the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to study all sorts of things.
And it’s sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it’s very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There’s very little about the personal lives of the characters.
