Years Quotes · Page 154

Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

— Rio Ferdinand

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

— James Rothman

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

— Peter Straub

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

— Joely Richardson

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old.

— Carole Nelson Douglas

In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.

— Jerry Jeff Walker

If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.

— Blake Shelton

Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface…

— Keri Hilson

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only…

— Thomas Pynchon

Iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much, because Iran, as I said many years ago, Iran is…

— Donald Trump

Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I…

— Jose Maria Aznar

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you…

— Elton John

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of…

— Wassily Kandinsky

In other parts of the world where I go, people are worried about, Jeez, you know, I really wanted to buy my…

— Chris Kilham

Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations…

— Meir Kahane

In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were…

— Mikhail Lomonosov

Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or…

— Nicholas Stern

I grew up in Venezuela, and when I was 14-years-old, my parents decided to sell everything and come to America. Five of…

— Wilmer Valderrama

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me…

— Ridley Pearson

Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago…

— Michael Mann

H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway --…

— Howard Waldrop

It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet…

— George Julius Poulett Scrope

Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

— Mary Russell Mitford

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

— Warren Farrell

We've got the best product pipeline that I've seen in my 25 years at Apple.

— Eddy Cue

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

— Samuel Johnson

When my husband of almost 20 years can't take his eyes off me? That's amazing.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

— Swami Vivekananda

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

— Douglas Wilson

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.

— Mark Bittman

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

— Dirk Bogarde

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

— Bill Burr

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

— Jean-Claude Duvalier

Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.

— Patrick Collison

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

— Jonathan Woodgate

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

— Winston Churchill