"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs."

Old, Years

28

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs."

Exlpore more Old quotes

"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Old,

"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Old, Years

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Old,

"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Old, Philosophy, Practice, Praise

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Old,

"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

Old,

"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Old,

"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Old,

"Every old poem is sacred."

Horace, Roman Poet

Old,

"Old foxes want no tutors."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Old, Want

Explore more quotes by Nicolas Roeg

"And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography."

Thought

"They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women."

Woman

"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."

Control

"But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now."

Media

"In life, we all learn from everyone."

Life

"The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing."

Sports

"Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't."

Movies

"There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously."

Society

"Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar."

Change

"The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors."

Time