Best 62 quotes in «old fashioned quotes» category

I know it sounds foolishly old fashioned, but I'm stuck with this idea that there's something dignified and noble about facing your enemy and looking him in the eye before you thrust a saber in his heart.

I prefer happiness to unhappiness, pleasure to pain. I'm old-fashioned that way.

LED lighting has its place: cold, detached, hollow places like office buildings, factories, fast food chains and public schools - places full of humans but no human emotions. LED lighting really belongs in the apathy of the digital age, where science and technology rules over friendship, love and freedom. Incandescent light bulbs have a warm yellow-orange glow like the glow of a nice fireplace, where friends and family might sit and talk together or where children might open Christmas presents, a glow that can project celluloid films and bring back old memories, a glow that can light the text of a paperback novel. Something that beautiful, with that much power, could never last very long in a time as depressing and uncertain as the 21st century.

It is you who are old fashioned with your machine-guns and your gas and your talk of country.

Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.

Recent generations seem to consider ‘old-fashioned’ thinking as out-dated and without place in the modern world. I beg to differ. After all, who has greater faith? He who looks to and learns from the past, or the man who cares not for consequence?

I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch

Mine is a so-called vintage existence, anachronistic living, made all the more rewarding by keeping a raised eyebrow on the absurdities of modern life.

When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.

Sal, straight, no matter where I live, my trunk's always sticking out from under the bed, I'm ready to leave or get thrown out. I've decided to leave everything out of my hands. You've seen me try and break my ass to make it and you know that it doesn't matter and we know time — how to slow it up and walk and dig and just old-fashioned spade kicks, what other kicks are there? We know.

Those with traditional sense will follow what their heart tells them is right.

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

Sit back and enjoy. And remember: Always be careful what you say around your kids.

We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.

With the heady scent of yeast in the air, it quickly becomes clear that Langer's hasn't changed at all. The black-and-white-checked linoleum floor, the tin ceiling, the heavy brass cash register, all still here. The curved-front glass cases with their wood counter, filled with the same offerings: the butter cookies of various shapes and toppings, four kinds of rugelach, mandel bread, black-and-white cookies, and brilliant-yellow smiley face cookies. Cupcakes, chocolate or vanilla, with either chocolate or vanilla frosting piled on thick. Brownies, with or without nuts. Cheesecake squares. Coconut macaroons. Four kinds of Danish. The foil loaf pans of the bread pudding made from the day-old challahs. And on the glass shelves behind the counter, the breads. Challahs, round with raisins and braided either plain or with sesame. Rye, with and without caraway seeds. Onion kuchen, sort of strange almost-pizza-like bread that my dad loves, and the smaller, puffier onion rolls that I prefer. Cloverleaf rolls. Babkas. The wood-topped cafe tables with their white chairs, still filled with the little gossipy ladies from the neighborhood, who come in for their mandel bread and rugelach, for their Friday challah and Sunday babka, and take a moment to share a Danish or apple dumpling and brag about grandchildren.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

Erdogan wants an old-fashioned Islam, if you will, for lack of a better term.

Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.

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

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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

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

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.