Quotes About Same Old Thing

#1. One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Mark Batterson

#2. I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

Samuel Beckett

#3. I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.

Chris Van Hollen

#4. I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

Michael Caine

#5. The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

William J. Clinton

#6. The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.

Ehren Kruger

#7. I think the people are just looking for freedom in music ... There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

Rick James

#8. I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years ... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Paul Weller

#9. Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Missy Elliott

#10. Nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.

Charles Bukowski

#11. I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

Joseph Plaskett

#12. With your depth of field and curious soul, allowing something to evolve or to see meaning in playful accidents can make the difference between creating the same old thing, or something that is unique, valuable, lasting, beautiful.

Alan Moore

#13. The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.

Vironika Tugaleva

#14. The same old thing
even if it's champagne
is still the same old thing.

Mason Cooley

#15. I think a great first date would be something different ... not like movies or going to dinner ... going rock climbing together ... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.

Madeline Zima

#16. Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Dave Davies

#17. And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing ...

Tim Burton

#18. I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

Drew Goddard

#19. In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two ... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?

Billie Jean King

#20. democracy just seemed like the same old thing with a bigger group of idiots running the show.

Robert Kroese

#21. If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

Mark Batterson

#22. I once overheard a young white man at a book festival say to his friend, "Have you read the new Kureishi? Same old thing - loads of Indian people." To which you want to reply, "Have you read the new Franzen? Same old thing - loads of white people.

Zadie Smith

#23. I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Cobi Jones

#24. If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards - you are going deeper.

Stormie O'martian

#25. It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.

Kid Cudi

#26. I'm an organism of the earth, a Taurus. I was never born of air, of water, or of fire. I'm a creature of gravity and I could feel the ground whisper. The same thing happens to me in old hotels when I'm staying on the twenty-second floor. I open a window and want to fling myself out.

Sue Grafton

#27. A 17-year-old girl in Australia hacked into my e-mail while I was on it, Then a 15-year-old girl in England did the same thing.

Robert Pattinson

#28. I know that some people have different personas for the different things they do, and I'm not criticizing that - maybe it's a good thing - but I'm the same old person, so I take everything in stride.

Patti Smith

#29. Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

Sean Penn

#30. I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.

Victoria Justice

#31. My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.

Victor Hugo

#32. Some things were done a certain way and they had been done that same way for ages. Most of the time it was a good thing, a reliable thing, and we grew up being able to count on life being very predictable and very dependable.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#33. Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really ...

Patrick Stump

#34. The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

Cher

#35. Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it is. It is a thing that changes all the time, and then comes back to the same thing. -Old Yao

Lin Yutang

#36. Because sooner or later, all kinds of love - crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.

Lang Leav

#37. The only customers they'd get on a day like this were lunatics
well, lunatics and hopeless romantics with a fetish for the smell of dusty old books, which in their eyes probably amounted to the same thing.

Katherine Pine

#38. In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

Joichi Ito

#39. If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived.

Christy Moore

#40. Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.

Lester Bowie

#41. The thing that impressed everyone when he same on the scene as a 17 year old was he already spoke like a man.
(on Michael Owen)

Graeme Souness

#42. Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

Jamie Zawinski

#43. This is the Presley and Zachary of old times. Two hot-headed and emotional people. Yes, he's sweet and loving, but he has an angry side. When you poke the bear, he roars loud. Funny thing is that I'm the same. He's pissed me off by coming here yelling at me.

Corinne Michaels

#44. People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.

Jack White

#45. One of his co-workers told me one time when I was about 20 years old, "I like your dad. He hates me, but the thing about your old man is that he hates everyone the same." I've

Eric Greitens

#46. I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

Novak Djokovic

#47. I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

Jerry Hall

#48. The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.

Art Linkletter

#49. I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.

Leo Tolstoy

#50. Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing ...

Julian Fellowes

#51. But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

Rebecca Skloot

#52. I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state.

Noah Feldman

#53. A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#54. Age in itself gives substance - what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.

Jane Hirshfield

#55. It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

Dan Brown

#56. So what will happen now?" / "Same thing as happens every other time you've come here," said the old woman. "You go home." / "I don't know where that is anymore," I told them. / "You always say that," said Ginnie.

Neil Gaiman

#57. Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!

Jerome Richardson

#58. This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

Byron Dorgan

#59. Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it.

Jennifer Coolidge

#60. I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

Barbra Streisand

#61. THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh ... And the same thing is happening to my generation.

Dambudzo Marechera

#62. It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#63. Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.

Chris Wooding

#64. No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney.

David Letterman

#65. I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

Jessica Lucas

#66. Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.

Frank McCourt

#67. Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.

Lamar Alexander

#68. I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

Aaron Funk

#69. In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.

Douglas Adams

#70. The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

Louis Kahn

#71. But another thing I know is this - we can't steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can't change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that's what this election is all about.

Barack Obama

#72. That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.

Miles Davis