Years Quotes · Page 118

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.

— David Boies

When I did Nicholas Nickelby originally, that was a co-production between the new Channel 4, Polygram in Europe and Mobil Oil in…

— Colin Callender

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three…

— Niall Ferguson

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion…

— Marian Diamond

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

— Elizabeth Warren

I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was…

— Julia Restoin Roitfeld

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

— Robert Fisk

In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning…

— Paul Robeson

I don't think in the religious way that most people associate that word with, but Hern is a committed guy. He's doing…

— John H Richardson

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

— Prince Philip

Allow me to add that it is my conviction that the contents of Der Stuermer as such were not (incitement). During the…

— Julius Streicher

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

— Sam Raimi

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

— Ron White

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated…

— Thomas Sowell

I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took…

— Billy Joel

They embrace them because they represent everything that America represents: money, power, and freedom. Why else would you see an old Ugandan…

— Roger Ross Williams

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with…

— Dianna Agron

Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle…

— Richard J. Foster

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

— Sigrid Undset

I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.

— Hamza Yusuf

I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No…

— Tim Burton

That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every…

— Iman Abdulmajid

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a…

— Hermann Hesse

And James L. Brooks then sort of became our mentor, brought us out to Los Angeles and worked on the script for…

— Owen Wilson

The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track.…

— Bob Proctor

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

— Elizabeth Moon

The 4D style, or cosmic comics and relativistic humor, is based on Einstein's theory of relativity which I came up with 20…

— Javad Alizadeh

Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear…

— Warren Buffett

Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

— Aidan Gillen

My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your…

— Doug Harvey

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing,…

— Bailey Chase

At around nine or 10 years of age, young people start to decide for themselves what's moral or not, and that's why…

— Morris Gleitzman

Our sport is in a changing of the guard right now. It happens every 10 or 15 years, and Brad is the…

— Darrell Waltrip

Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held…

— Ernie J Zelinski

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

— Khushwant Singh

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I…

— Illeana Douglas

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into…

— Robert A. Kotick

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

— Paul Gauguin

In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters…

— Peter Diamandis

I bear my humble witness to you that the great God of heaven will open doors and means in a way we…

— Vaughn J Featherstone