Words matter. These are the best Old Thing Quotes from famous people such as Chris Van Hollen, P. J. O’Rourke, Robert Bresson, Greg Davies, Matt Mullenweg, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.
All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don’t believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
It’s a strange old thing, but I think an awful lot of ‘Inbetweeners’ fans still don’t realise I’m a stand-up.
Whenever there’s a new form of media, we always think it’s going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.
I know that everyone has their own ideas about what the good life is, and hip hop has especially strong ideas about it. It’s been the same old thing for years and years: a bunch of females around you, nice cars and money. I wanted people to know what the good life actually is and challenge a lot of the lies that we’re told.
I don’t accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy’s recent troubles. The monarchy’s responsible for the monarchy’s recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.
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.
That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.
I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I’d like to turn into a wise old thing.
Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it.
Give me the new thing and give it to me now. I don’t want that old thing – I’ve seen it, heard it, bought it, slept with it, loved it, but now I’m bored with the old thing and I’m gagging for the new stuff.
I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
When the Beatles wrote ‘Paperback Writer,’ it couldn’t have been the same old thing. You can hear so many influences in it, from the blues to Bach, and it’s not just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus. They start off singing a cappella, almost like a Bach chorale, and the song goes into this bluesy guitar riff.
I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don’t necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years… I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.
I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.
Sometimes when you’re with the same old people, you get the same old thing.
Doing the same old thing every day, week in and week out, it gets boring. I’m all about new challenges, new opponents.
It’s like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don’t want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy – and separate – than together and miserable. I don’t want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don’t work.
I think a great first date would be something different… not like movies or going to dinner… going rock climbing together… doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it’s not the same old thing.
I don’t watch ‘The X Factor’ any more. Why do I want to see someone say the same old thing – it’s all they’ve ever dreamed about – then lose and burst into tears and go into neurosis? They just want to be famous – it doesn’t matter how.
I think the idea of crazy goalkeepers is an old thing, really.
I think audiences crave something new. I don’t think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.
I definitely do like change. I don’t know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don’t like the same old thing all the time.
