#old days

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. ↗

— David Attenborough

#cardinal #days #fact #factual #history

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#beautifully #beethoven #composers #days #harmony

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#always #better #days #great #i

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#days #exciting #good #good old days #i

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days. ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#europeans #few #how #know #light

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process. ↗

— George A. Romero

#could #dark #days #effect #expensive

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#corpses #days #death #derision #division

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#dragon #dragons #good #nixon #old