Years Quotes · Page 167

Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?

— Regina Brett

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.

— Stephen Merchant

I've never made love to a ghost but I have made love to men who are a few years away from becoming…

— Chelsea Handler

Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things.

— Sandra Bullock

My eight-year-old bought a bicycle with the money he saved by not smoking.

— Phyllis Diller

I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.

— Woody Allen

When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.

— Selena

Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, Erin McKenna's donuts are the best I've had in 20 years, without exception.

— Mark Bittman

If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax…

— Barack Obama

I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted…

— Annie Dillard

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts,…

— Mark Twain

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

— Mao Zedong

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I…

— Clint Eastwood

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part…

— Yoko Ono

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got…

— Jo Stafford

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they…

— David Duchovny

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me…

— Sonia Sotomayor

If becoming your most extraordinary self doesn't inspire you, if claiming your greatness doesn't get you moving in the morning, if you…

— Debbie Ford

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is…

— Robert Bringhurst

I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think…

— Frederick Forsyth

We are deep into the year of the dragon and all around the intensity of the collective pushes forward to a new…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time,…

— Robert Charles Wilson

It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already…

— David A. Bednar

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a…

— Rose Schneiderman

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

— Mickey Rourke

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs

— Marlene Dietrich

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

— Jackie Cooper

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

— Daniel Suarez

I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.

— Michael Angarano

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.

— Al Lewis

Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.

— Eric Andre

You shall more command with years than with your weapons.

— William Shakespeare

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.

— Andre Maurois

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

— Laura Benanti

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

— Marjane Satrapi

In the end of 2012 no one looks back on this year and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep

— Tiesto

Actually, I stopped looking at myself in the mirror years ago. I wasn't making it to work on time.

— Zach Braff

I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.

— Nancy Grace