Years Quotes · Page 215

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

— William Shakespeare

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

— Valerie Bertinelli

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

I've been working for, like, 10 years now, which is a very strange thing to say when you're 23.

— Lucy Boynton

Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

— Tara Lipinski

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

— Donnie Yen

I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.

— Alan Arkin

My pops is doing 120 years, I have friends doing life, I have niggas in the grave.

— Bobby Shmurda

I lived in Brooklyn for a year and I moved out to Rockaway Beach. I've been living here for two years now.…

— Mac DeMarco

Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously…

— Montel Williams

I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever…

— Sylvia Browne

I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it…

— Tony Shalhoub

Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live…

— Nick Kroll

Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken…

— Goran Visnjic

I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand…

— Chris Matthews

I have been very busy having so many fights since I turned pro. To have 13 in little more than two years…

— Anthony Yarde

I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed…

— Rod Serling

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out…

— David Mamet

I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an…

— Annie Lennox

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems…

— Kenichi Ohmae

Over the past 30 years, hand grenades, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, helicopters and assault rifles have replaced traditional floral patterns in rug…

— Henri Cole

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor…

— Charles Darwin

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal,…

— Lucy Powell

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

— Robert Bly

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of…

— Sandy Koufax

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

— Emmanuelle Beart

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

— Tom Sizemore

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

— Peter Hedges

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

— Mary McGrory

I was an extra on 21 Jump Street when I was 19 years old.

— Marilyn Manson

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

— David Blaine

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

— Terry Pratchett

It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

— Jean Plaidy

The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free!

— Dan John

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

— George Herbert

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

— Terry McMillan

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

— David Koepp

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

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

— Bruce Springsteen