“When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?”
“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.”
“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”
“Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.”
“I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.”
“In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.”
“I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don’t look back on the good old days.”
“I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.”
“I’m not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.”
“The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.”
“The best part is still ahead of me – I haven’t experienced my ‘good old days’ yet.”
“Orson Welles’s second ‘I-did-it’ should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.”
“When Photoshop came around, I thought I’d died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, ‘Oh, the good old days’ or ‘I’m old school,’ I just want to puke. There’s no tool I won’t use.”
“I don’t do nostalgia. The phrase ‘the good old days’ never passes my lips.”
“When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?”
“The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.”
“Everything has become so easy. It’s great that it’s at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we’re connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we’re speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.”
“These days, right now, these are the good old days. I’ve always approached it that way. That’s why I’m still working. I’m not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.”
“I’ve thrown away lots of my old diaries – you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.”
“The good old days are now.”
“I don’t have to wait to realize the good old days.”
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