Quotes of: Old-wine Keyword

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl.

Kiss Her Goodbye: An Otto Penzler Book

In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.

Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so much the cultural. But I tell you those who do the most damage during an era are very much aware of both.

Killosophy

Love is the colour of spring sunshine muted through old windows. Love has a taste, a texture - dark chocolate with pistachios; a sound - wind chimes echoing from a distant hill; a rhythm - the tango, obviously.

Katie in Love

The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

Keynes The Man

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Reaper Man

Her eyes narrowed, but she wasn't yelling. I think she liked me... kind of. The way a mother would like an annoying spastic two year old who belonged to someone else.

Ready to Were

Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when we return to the spots where they happened.

The Sorrows of an American

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

The Sense of an Ending

To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be translated.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

The Summer I Learned to Fly

Sometimes, the only way to exorcise old ghosts is to pack your bags and move in with them.

Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Murder on the Orient Express

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

And the Mountains Echoed

This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

The Museum of Innocence

[..] when a friendship has become a matter of arranging to meet, dates in diaries, agreement that next week or the next are 'no good', then it has been silently acknowledged that the old intimacy has gone.

My Name is Legion

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

Madness: A Bipolar Life

You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.

Marked

We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

Memenomics: The Next Generation Economic System

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

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