#old days

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

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#consisted #crises #days #ever #every

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. ↗

— David Attenborough

#cardinal #days #fact #factual #history

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

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#always #better #days #great #i

I would have liked the old days. ↗

— David Wells

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Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days. ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#europeans #few #how #know #light

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#back #been #bring #days #india

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#corpses #days #death #derision #division

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#days #die #dog #dying #fitting