Years Quotes · Page 204

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

— Ma Ying-jeou

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

— Andy Warhol

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

— Salman Rushdie

Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?

— Rob Portman

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

— Kurt Cobain

The only single guy driving a minivan is a guy whose mother bought the van 16 years ago...

— Mike Pesca

I think 2015 will see a year where Europe outperforms the U.S. massively.

— Marc Faber

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

— Aleister Crowley

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could…

— Pete Seeger

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

— Oprah Winfrey

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a…

— George Will

I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the…

— Greg Norman

I'm so very proud to be a part of Playmate history. It's such an honour to be one of 12 girls selected…

— Lisa Dergan Podsednik

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago…

— Fredrik Bajer

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that…

— Michael Shannon

Music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything. For years I was so…

— Lou Doillon

I would ... go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting. ... Till it came to me one day…

— Alice Munro

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know…

— Bob Dylan

I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three…

— James Rebhorn

Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been…

— Robert Osborne

I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s…

— Diana Vreeland

I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going…

— Yvon Chouinard

The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat…

— Russell Lynes

History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been…

— Neal Ascherson

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

— Cesare Pavese

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

— Abraham A. Ribicoff

I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.

— Bob Bergen

In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

— Gene Tierney

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.

— Adepero Oduye

Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have.

— Keith Fullerton Whitman

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

— Merle Shain

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

— Columba Bush

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

— Cam Gigandet

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

— Clive Owen

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

— Jostein Gaarder

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

— Jean Renoir

If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.

— Karise Eden

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

— Jim Bouton

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

— George Carlin