Like Old Quotes
92 Like Old quotes by 82 unique authors
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Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
— John Webster
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He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read.…
— John Bellairs
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Quite like old times,' the room says.
— Jean Rhys
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By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like…
— Arundhati Roy
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Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I…
— Ray Bradbury
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I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a…
— Laura Whitcomb
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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a…
— Louis Armstrong
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He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard,…
— Fannie Flagg
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Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
— George R. R. Martin
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Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other…
— Erin Morgenstern
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I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and…
— John Updike
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What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything…
— Ron Rash
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Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
— David Mitchell
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There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.
— Dharma Mittra
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Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and my first dog…
— Justin Kirk
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I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is…
— Alice Waters
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As my own boss, I have the opportunity to get to work with great brands like Old Navy, and I get to style some looks…
— Brad Goreski
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I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle,…
— Terry Zwigoff
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
— Karl Malone
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They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like…
— Karl Malone
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In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have to face, like…
— Dalai Lama
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