Top 37 Quotes About The Same Old Story
#1. It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention.
Tim Wu
#2. Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.
Jay McInerney
#3. It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
James McBride
#4. New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.
Alex Morritt
#5. It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
Travis Tritt
#7. It's still the same old story,
A fight for love and glory,
A case of do or die!
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.
Herman Hupfeld
#8. Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#9. And don't give me the same old story:
"We're in Mexico. Pray."
You'd be better off taking a snake rattle.
Carlos Fuentes
#10. Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher
#11. It's the same old story, all you think about is money.
Rafael Nadal
#12. It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.
Frederick Lenz
#13. We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.
Jesse L. Martin
#14. I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the "hot bread and sweet cakes;" and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. For one thing, the penthouse was simply too big. Besides the seventy-one bedrooms, there were a number of living rooms, dining rooms, breakfast rooms, snack rooms, sitting rooms, standing rooms, ballrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and an assortment of rooms that seem to have no purpose at all.
Lemony Snicket
#16. Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
Zakk Wylde
#17. I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.
Madonna Ciccone
#18. I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models - I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations.
Brittany Snow
#19. For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle.
#20. The Creator wished to bless the home of the Iroquois and he placed his immense hand upon the earth, and the impression it left was the Finger Lakes"
Myths, Legends and Lore Central New York and the Finger Lakes
Melanie Zimmer
#21. There are no tips for life neither for travelling
Guido Colombo
#22. In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#23. We're all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.
Corey Ann Haydu
#24. Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.
Jose Serrano
#25. We shall now seek that which we shall not find
Thomas Malory
#26. Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.
John Lydon
#27. Not all the truths are told, dreams are shattered, words are unspoken, memories are haunting but the imagination is still fighting to settle down.
Magith Noohukhan
#28. Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
Rachel Bloom
#29. History is a raw onion sandwich, it just repeats, it burps. We've seen it again and again this year. Same old story, Same old oscillation between tyranny and rebellion, war and peace, prosperity and impoverishment
Julian Barnes
#30. I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.
Josh Hartnett
#31. It is a brave man ... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
James A. Garfield
#32. If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.
Robert McKee
#33. Little smoke couldn't be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast. And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep.
Mark Twain
#34. But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.
Lauren Kate
#35. The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.
Stephen Harker
#36. As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.
Stephen Hunter
#37. Demond's family history wasn't so different from my own, did that mean we were living the same story over and over again, down through the generations? That the young and Black had always been dying, until all that was left were children and the few old, as in war?
Jesmyn Ward
