Years Quotes · Page 170

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

— Mary McGrory

Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.

— Terry McMillan

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

— George Herbert

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

— John Grisham

Cara was six years younger. She slept in my bed for years.

— Poppy Delevingne

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

— Bruce Springsteen

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

— David Koepp

Over the years, when I've seen players retire, when you ask them about it, they always say you'll know when you're ready,…

— David Beckham

That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away…

— Nick Flynn

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when…

— Yasunari Kawabata

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years…

— Maurice Chevalier

We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are…

— Ed Mayo

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by…

— Johnny Winter

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the…

— Christopher Hitchens

I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I…

— M. Ward

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You have so much more time to observe and learn with a documentary because of the time between the shoots. You get…

— Debra Granik

Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to…

— Bill Capodagli

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of…

— Nick Clegg

Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was…

— Eoin Colfer

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories…

— Angelina Jolie

I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long…

— Bill McKibben

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

— Marissa Mayer

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

— Just Fontaine

I was always singing around the house, even when I was two years old.

— Alessia Cara

Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere

— J. Cole

Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

— Maajid Nawaz

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

— Tracy Kidder

How many years one lives is not important, but how one lives is!!!

— Uma Maheswar Nakka

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

— Dana Carvey

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

— Anthony de Mello

No matter what time of year I come here, people always say the same thing: Its not usually like this.

— Garrison Keillor

After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.

— Dan Castellaneta

All these years, when someone praised my work, I would feel lucky.

— Nani

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

— Nile Rodgers