Thirty years on, I am no longer as certain about anything…

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you…

— Mark Twain

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge…

— Sylvia Plath

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you…

— Eli Roth

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I love fashion because it's plugged into the zeitgeist, so it's always changing. Thirty years ago, I could never have predicted I'd be where…

— Michael Kors

For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.

— Bayazid Bastami

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very…

— Stephen King

You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a…

— Noam Chomsky

Dr Dean Burk, who has spent more than fifty years in cancer research, mainly at the National Cancer Institute states: 'More people have died…

— Dean Burk

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new…

— Michael Smith

For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After…

— Lynn Hill

[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember,…

— Bess Truman

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

— Harlan Ellison