An Old Broom Quotes

#1. A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

Paul Mooney

#2. Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Robert Schumann

#3. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66]

Julian Barnes

#4. The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

Aristippus

#5. All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

Lin Yutang

#6. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

Andre Kostelanetz

#7. Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

David Halberstam

#8. I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I'm in my fifthies, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance.

Nicolas Cage

#9. I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

Bob Dylan

#10. Everything that is born will eventually die and everything that is created will eventually be destroyed.

Philip A.K. Ovland

#11. A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

Angela Carter

#12. Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political players in their states or districts.

Joshua Micah Marshall

#13. about to knock again when the inside door is pulled open to reveal a sinewy woman dressed in what appears to be layers of old sweaters and an ankle-length denim skirt. Her long hair held back in an elastic that leaves the ends bunched and brittle as the head of a broom. Brown eyes wide and alive,

Andrew Pyper

#14. It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. I do not love hot more than I love cold, high more than low, left more than right. It is all relative. It is all part of what is.

Neale Donald Walsch