Old-fashioned Quotes - page 2

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form. (Alberto Manguel)

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

Izaak Walton

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

Michael Bloomberg

The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past. One must not think then that the old-fashioned theories have been sterile or vain.

Henri Poincaré

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that.

Bob Hope

The typical old-fashioned diet was so bad it almost resembled modern dieting.

P. J. O'Rourke

I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it's polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration.

Rick Riordan

The only way I'm interested in having a baby is the old-fashioned way.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.

Emilia Clarke

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

Jonny Greenwood

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk. (John C. Reilly)

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Patricof

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

B. Carroll Reece

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

Bill Bixby

I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

Barry Hannah

I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two.

Christine McVie

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.

Donald Sadoway

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.

Elizabeth Kim

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Eric Allin Cornell

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

Erich von Stroheim

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here. (Francesca Annis)

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

Hayden Fry

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.

Jay Reatard

What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

Jenny Eclair

I'm kind of an old-fashioned guy.

Joe Arpaio

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