Old-fashioned Quotes

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.