Years Quotes · Page 101

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

— Doug Larson

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

— Carroll O'Connor

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

— Abbie Cornish

You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic.

— George Carlin

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

— Patrick Ness

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

— Leon Uris

You can dream for years, but in a split moment it can all become a nightmear.

— Chris Castillo

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

— Madonna Ciccone

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider…

— Joseph Addison

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

— Al Ries

I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."…

— Rick Riordan

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you…

— Stephen King

Calgary wins for my coldest New Year's Eve gig. That's when I learned Fahrenheit and Celsius cross at 40 below. I could…

— Elayne Boosler

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of…

— Rupert Everett

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling -…

— Omar Sharif

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating…

— Alexander McCall Smith

So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and…

— William Mapother

The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo:…

— Aleksey Igudesman

Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it…

— Doris Lessing

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next…

— Milton Friedman

Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare…

— Hamish Bowles

[Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were…

— Garry Kasparov

I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around…

— Bob Dylan

Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.

— Robert Jackson

It is disheartening when you put in two-three years of work on a film and it doesn't work.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I can't work in Indian serials, as they are too long... they run for years.

— Mahira Khan

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market,…

— Johnny Damon

So in the near future, two or three years, people in Kyrgyzstan will experience a better life.

— Kurmanbek Bakiyev

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

— Gloria Steinem

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

— Robert Kirkman

I loved experimenting with eyeshadow and lip gloss in my tween years.

— Tommy Dorfman

Tzuyu is the purest person I have ever met in all my 24 years. She is also the prettiest person.

— Jeongyeon

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

— Douglas Coupland

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

— Jerry Goldsmith

I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

— Lee Maynard

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

— Billie Holiday

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

— David Petraeus