Time Tested Quotes

I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

Superman is such an old character. He's an old character with this huge legacy behind him. And one of the awesome things about the fact that he's been around for these decades is that he's gone through these different phases.

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

Casino games are the one kind of content that has stood the test of time for decades.

Not everybody has things that become classics.

Judges don't age; time decorates them.

Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

his voice was centuries old

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

One thing with Backstreet Boys, we never try to rush out an album. We always try to make quality music that can stand the test of time.

I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

I'm a stickler when it comes to every aspect of my line. My development team probably hates working with me sometimes... but in a good way. I think that I push them to a certain degree to create something that's going to withstand the test of time.

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

I'm a traditionalist.