Top 100 Quotes About These Days
#1. These days any planned thing looked good to me. What heaven to have your work cut out for you, to be part of the Big Picture
a picture you did not have to paint yourself.
Laurie Colwin
#2. YouTube is the new TV. I'm the voice of the young people. I feel like kids these days don't watch TV anymore ... No, I will never leave YouTube. Never ever ever ... If I do, you can do whatever you want to me.
Spoken Reasons
#3. These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years.
Kevin Pietersen
#4. But the worse you express yourself these days the more profound people think you
though that's nothing new.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#5. Let's be courageous in these days. Let's choose love and rest and grace. Let's use our minutes and hours to create memories with the people we love instead of dragging them on one more errand or shushing them while we accomplish one more seemingly necessary thing.
Shauna Niequist
#7. It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea.
John Hench
#8. Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.
Miuccia Prada
#9. That didn't surprise me; any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day. with no time off and no pay except room and board.
Elizabeth Peters
#10. One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.
Aileen Quinn
#11. These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn't be human.
Hanif Kureishi
#12. It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
Miguel Syjuco
#13. These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
Catherine Keener
#14. The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.
Neil Gaiman
#15. Men may find God in nature, but when they look at cities they are viewing themselves. And what Americans see mirrored in their cities these days is not very flattering.
Paul Ylvisaker
#16. Recurrent memories of Henry Schoonmaker were the most exciting thing to happen in her conscious mind these days.
Anna Godbersen
#17. 'Blue Valentine,' Derek Cianfrance's emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that's hard to come by in Hollywood these days.
Katie Hafner
#18. People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
Daron Malakian
#19. It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.
Loudon Wainwright III
#20. I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days
Ava Gardner
#21. I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.
Ed Droste
#22. The problem is, most folks these days don't have enough faith to see the magic that's all around them. These days, normal means confused, fallen, lost.
J. Gabriel Gates
#23. These days I think the important word is "transformational," and I define practice as the attempt to establish clarity in the mind so that habits that create suffering are replaced by habits that lead to peace and express themselves as love.
Shefa Gold
#25. On average the total walking of an American these days
that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls
adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day. That's ridiculous.
Bill Bryson
#26. He is always there for her,always waiting. The most constant companion anyone could pray for. One of these days she will return to him. She will feel that desire again, that need beyond human comprehension, and they will be together forever.
Carrie Ryan
#27. Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
Bill Bryson
#28. I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed.
Michelle Franklin
#29. Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
Daley Thompson
#30. It's so difficult to shock America these days.
Judd Apatow
#31. These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#32. Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.
Tom Freston
#33. That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?
Denis Johnson
#34. There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?
Andrew O'Hagan
#35. More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.
Dave Barry
#36. These days I can't tell what I really feel.
Jackie Kay
#37. Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
Gates McFadden
#38. I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.
John Cusack
#39. These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
Umberto Boccioni
#40. Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.
Julie Burchill
#41. These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
#42. My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
Kenny Loggins
#43. Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I grew up with amazing melodies, so getting that right on a song has always been the key thing for me, but there's no reason why a great melody doesn't deserve great lyrics.
Avicii
#44. Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.
Peter Asher
#45. These days, "getting lucky" means drinking an entire cup of COFFEE while it's still HOT!
Tanya Masse
#46. I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!
Eric Idle
#47. The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#48. It's hard to tell these days what gender people are. You don't know if they're gay, if they're straight, or Bruce Jenner.
Chelsea Handler
#49. Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.
Emily Robison
#50. The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.
Mark McKinnon
#51. You can't keep pushing everyone away." She stood up from the chair, her body tense. "You can't keep doing this, because one of these days, you'll wake up and have no one.
Rebecca Donovan
#52. Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
Carrot Top
#53. There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had a measure of success primarily, to my mind, because Sunni and Shia Iraqis hate and fear each other more these days than they hate and fear the Americans.
Patrick Cockburn
#54. A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.
John Newcombe
#55. I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days - huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don't really enjoy travelling. I don't imagine anyone does except young children.
Christopher Lee
#56. Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.
Linda Blair
#57. I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.
Rita Ora
#58. Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?
Dennis Miller
#59. Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.
Janet Evanovich
#60. I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.
Twyla Tharp
#61. It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.
Jay Cutler
#62. I'm not used to people saying exactly what they think. Filtered talk is as popular as filtered water these days.
Willow Aster
#63. Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
William Hague
#64. I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows whether one of these days I shall not be prevented from doing it?
Alexei Nikolaevich
#65. I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.
Jim Morrison
#66. Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways.
Kode9
#67. It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
Plautus
#68. Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on drugs for my ADD or bipolarism or depression or whatever they're calling being alive and feeling royally screwed these days.
Stefan Petrucha
#69. A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.
David Letterman
#70. I distrust patriotism; the reasonable man can find little in these days that is worth dying for. But dying against - there's enough iniquity in Europe to carry the most urbane or decadent into battle.
Geoffrey Household
#73. I wonder sometimes whether a person has to become insane these days in order to feel certain things. Lessing once said, Who doesn't become insane over certain things, has no sanity to lose,
Erich Fromm
#74. One of these days, Leo, you're going to end up in a crazy-ass threesome, and I'm going to laugh. I'm going to sit back and laugh.
Sophie Oak
#75. My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.
Jesse James Garrett
#78. These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.
Peter Lindbergh
#79. He was silent, and she finally gave him her full attention. "You're creepy, you know?"
A small grin plucked at one corner of his mouth. "I thought you liked strong silent types these days."
"There's silent, and then there's you.
Lauren Gilley
#80. The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.
Teju Cole
#81. Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from a master; and in spite of the fact that we have hundreds of critics these days, it is one of the most difficult of professions.
Janet Scudder
#82. There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.
Phil Anselmo
#83. These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.
Len Wein
#84. Come on. Say it, Raffe." I give him a half smile. "I love it when you say Pooky Bear. It's just so perfect when it comes out of your mouth."
"She might kill you in your sleep one of these days just so she can get rid of that name.
Susan Ee
#85. This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.
Andy Taylor
#86. But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
Chuck Schumer
#87. Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.
Anne Hathaway
#88. I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.
Doug Benson
#89. The Major only glanced at the newspaper these days, tired of trying to comprehend a situation which defied comprehension, a war without battles or trenches.
J.G. Farrell
#90. These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.
John Lydon
#91. Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
Cameron Diaz
#92. What a name! Was it love or praise?
Speech half-asleep or song half-awake?
I must learn Spanish, one of these days,
Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
Robert Browning
#93. Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.
Dr. Seuss
#94. In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.
Michelle Visage
#95. Perhaps one of these days she'd surprise herself and not actually do the thing that was right and proper and best for all concerned. And probably give herself heart failure from the shock.
Jo Victor
#96. I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be considered gunslingers.
Michael Scheuer
#97. Most every album - and especially metal albums these days - are made in a way that you can grow tired of them very easily: They're made to be dissected and played on radio, released as singles or stuck on at parties.
Mat McNerney
#98. I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.
Jeffrey Donovan
#99. These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'
Giada De Laurentiis
#100. Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.
Frank Lampard
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