Old Things Quotes

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom‘s family was one of the early families in California, so there’s history going back to the 1840s or ’50s.

One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you‘ve managed to save old things but to keep using them – that they’ve not just become museums the way they do in the United States.

That’s one thing I love about my son – he‘s just a gamer at heart, he loves everything. He’ll still play ‘Pole Position,’ or just old things at an arcade. He just loves games. He’s not a graphics snob at all. I love him.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

If any man be in Christ, he’s a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

I think this is how life is. It’s not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as you age and acquire experiences.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what’s going on, hearing new things or new old things.

As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there’s no rigour to it.

I’m looking through old things of mine, and there was this binder from when I was 14 years old. It is essentially a dream board. It is a school binder that I had put magazine clippings on. It said, ‘TV actress, fame, a picture of Halle Berry, a picture of Christina Aguilera.’ I was obsessed with both of them.

I’ve often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don’t have many old things, and we don’t really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn.

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven‘t seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven’t seen them before.