Top 100 Same Old Quotes
#1. I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.
Drew Goddard
#2. And there I was, trudging through the same old nowhere, day after day, always wanting to slow down, to sit down, to lie down, with my father walking on ahead, no doubt a little desperate, as he had every right to be.
Marilynne Robinson
#3. He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
Henry James
#4. 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
#5. A crossless Christianity isn't just a deficient Christianity; it's the same old satanism of human striving.
Russell D. Moore
#6. We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#7. A lot of the offers I get are for these innocent 16-year-olds, and I turn down a lot of stuff because it's the same-old same-old. The whole point of wanting to act is trying to change it up, and I want to experience everything.
Jillian Murray
#8. Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.
Stephen King
#9. When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
Bear Grylls
#10. 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
#11. The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.
Isaac Rosenberg
#12. You can only blame your problems on the world for so long
Before it all becomes the same old song
Fall Out Boy
#13. 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
#14. If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.
Henry Spencer
#15. This body needs me to say yes to it, just as it is right now. No more singing that same old jingle of body-shame and dieter's promised lands.
Kimber Simpkins
#16. 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
#17. I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.
Homaro Cantu
#18. We ring the bells and we raise the strain
We hang up garlands everywhere
And bid the tapers twinkle fair,
And feast and frolic - and then we go
Back to the same old lives again.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
#19. If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?
Joe Abercrombie
#20. During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.
William Zinsser
#22. 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
#23. People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.
Julia Glass
#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. Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
Bobby Knight
#26. It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.
Kid Cudi
#27. It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession with everyone else's destinies.
Anne Lamott
#28. The same old thing
even if it's champagne
is still the same old thing.
Mason Cooley
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.
Johnny Mercer
#32. Good or bad, we need change. Need the different. Our brains aren't wired for the same-old.
Vanessa Garden
#33. What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.
Bernie Sanders
#34. 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
#35. Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.
Katherine Anne Porter
#36. New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets.
Debbie Ford
#37. It was the same old question, whether a declaration of purpose might protect you from failure.
Emily Witt
#38. I started running ultras to become a better person. I thought if you could run 100 miles you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the Buddha, bringing peace and a smile to the world. It didn't work in my case. I'm the same old punk-ass as before, but there's always hope.
Jenn Shelton
#39. 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
#40. People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
Steve Coogan
#41. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip -
Markus Zusak
#42. Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?
Hilton Als
#43. 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
#44. One repeated the same old mistakes. Each of us has a blind spot in his thinking that defeats him time and again against all teaching and experience and pain.
Ernest Hebert
#45. I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.
Elton John
#46. No, it would be stupid. That's what I tell my clients. Don't run away from the problem. Making a fresh start can be much harder than sticking things out in the same old place.' 'I
Penny Kline
#47. I never asked to be born, and death's no question.
The sun's still shining off the same old lessons,
Then why does life feel like an educated guess?
And my thoughts are like meals ... I'm a sucker for the seconds.
Amir Mohamed
#48. and you and I left
with the same old question
the sheer unspeakable strangeness
of being here at all
Robin Williamson
#50. It was just the same old familiar moon. The one and only satellite that has faithfully circled the earth, at the same speed, from before human memory.
Haruki Murakami
#51. They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm
That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em.
But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic
Using nursery terms, at least not poetic ...
Kool Keith
#52. We stay in the same old situations because we're comforted by the familiar, even if the familiar is terrible.
Nancy Levin
#53. You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.
Douglas Wilson
#54. My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.
James Hillman
#55. It was that same old spiralling argument, and again he didn't have the energy to fight his corner. 'When you put it like that, I guess it doesn't sound too ridiculous.
Alastair Reynolds
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
Dorothy Allison
#59. ... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#60. 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
#61. I get it, let's just all write SOS on the ballot. Same Old Shit!
Rodney Ross
#62. The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.
Arthur Symons
#63. The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
William J. Clinton
#64. Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
Susan B. Anthony
#65. The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.
Ehren Kruger
#66. 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
#67. 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
#69. I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning to love, but already I want to abandon everything, everybody but you: only fear and habit prevent me.
Graham Greene
#70. Windows were shakin' all night in my dreams/ Everything was exactly the way that it seems/ Woke up this morning and I looked at the same old page/ Same ol' rat race/ Life in the same ol' cage.
Bob Dylan
#71. Our souls are getting older and we're tired of doing things the same old way. We want to find some real solutions.
Echo Bodine
#72. Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.
Lester Bowie
#73. Failure is normal expression of an action's re-action. learning is secondary in this process .it is only prime to recognize true capacity within ourselves.it is a tool to transform the same person in new one with new value and outlook towards the same old world.
Ratna M.munshi
#74. It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
Owen Hart
#75. When the world you're used to, that same old world you thought you knew so well, turns itself suddenly upside down, what can you do? Everything comes tumbling off the shelves of your expectations; nothing fits anymore.
Natalie Babbitt
#76. I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish
Jamie Oliver
#77. 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
#78. She'd subjugate her own wants and needs to suit him. Same old Chelsea.
Samanthe Beck
#79. Days are only beautiful early in the morning. I should have remembered that. Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. When the world opens its eyes, reality reasserts itself, and you're back with the same old shit.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#80. As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.
Robert Breault
#82. Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.
Vic Braden
#83. It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
Travis Tritt
#84. I had nothing to contribute. I played no part. I was on the edge.
Different.
Alone.
Everything around me, grey.
It was the same old feeling, back again.
I was in the middle of the group but I might as well have been a million miles away from these people.
Tim Relf
#85. Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Deepak Chopra
#86. If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.
Peter Diamandis
#87. Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year; only the new mind with new ideas enters the New Year!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most
David Attenborough
#89. The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.
Angelo Patri
#90. I don't want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I'd rather bring something new to the table that's true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to. That's the whole point, isn't it?
Veronika Carnaby
#91. And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.
Carl Sandburg
#92. Usually we feel that there's a large problem and we have to fix it. The instruction is to stop. Do something unfamiliar. Do anything besides rushing off in the same old direction, up to the same old tricks.
Pema Chodron
#93. The rhetoric of this masked master is one of the tolerance of difference. What better way to keep people in tow, hold them in the same old line of the same, than to console them with the noble lie of difference
Anonymous
#94. Alone with our madness and favorite flower
We see that there really is nothing left to write about.
Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things
In the same way, repeating the same things over and over
For love to continue and be gradually different.
John Ashbery
#95. See, the same old Ella still lives." He grins ... "She just needed a little push out." ...
"No, she doesn't. She's gone forever."
"Try all you want, but I'm bringing her back,
Jessica Sorensen
#96. Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music.
Emma Donoghue
#97. 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
#98. New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.
Alex Morritt
#99. He looked at me and a small amount of simpathy came into view, but was quickly replaced with the pissed off look. Yip, same old Chax, emotions are so overrated.
Karen Swart
#100. It took ten years
In the woods to tell that a mushroom
Stoppers the mouth of a buried corpse, that birds
Are the uttered thought of trees, that a greying wolf
Howls the same old song at the moon, year in, year out
Season after season, same rhyme, same reason.
Carol Ann Duffy
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