#old days

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#blood #bones #break #days #every

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

#days #good #good old days #memory #more

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#coming home #days #face #home #i

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#beautifully #beethoven #composers #days #harmony

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#approached #days #good #good old days #guy

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#days #exciting #good #good old days #i

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#dragon #dragons #good #nixon #old

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#bad #days #embarrassment #feminism #herself

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#after #days #directing #fantasy #i

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now? ↗

— Paul Ryan

#barack obama #carter #comes #days #fired