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Old Ones

«People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.»
«Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.»
«I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.»
Author: John Cage | About: Ideas | Keywords: frightened, Old Ones, the Old Ones
«The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.»
«I make it a policy to try never to make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way. After all, there's always all kinds of new ways to make a complete idiot of myself. Why repeat the old ones?»
Author: Margot Dalton | About: Rules | Keywords: idiot, Old Ones, policy, repeat, the Old Ones
«Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones.»
«The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.»
Author: John Wooden | About: Books | Keywords: Old Ones, the Old Ones
«The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.»
«You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.»
Author: Nikki Giovanni (Poet) | Keywords: Old Ones
«Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold»