Years Quotes · Page 230

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

— Frank J. Prial

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

— Jane Smiley

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway

— Nora Dunn

My hearts not been in it this year [2005], and I've not been playing well, but I keep on winning.

— Ronnie O'Sullivan

A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

— Yvon Chouinard

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

— Lucille Clifton

My mom was only 21 years old when she had me, and my dad was in his mid-20s.

— Camila Morrone

I don't want to be one of those young actors who is around for a couple of years and melts off the…

— Tuppence Middleton

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew…

— Ashwin Sanghi

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found…

— Robert Carlyle

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by…

— Mark Millar

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered…

— George Andrew Olah

I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my…

— Hannah Arendt

I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about…

— Burt Ward

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is…

— Steve Spurrier

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that…

— Wes Anderson

To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying. There is…

— Ross McKitrick

The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful…

— Roald Dahl

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years…

— Colin Hay

Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once…

— Orhan Pamuk

When I started playing music at East Tennessee State University I would sit on a stool with a tip jar in front…

— Kenny Chesney

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised…

— Jamie Sives

I've always been very involved with environmental issues. I was fortunate to be one of the speakers at the Earth Summit in…

— Mike Love

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

— Zora Neale Hurston

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

— Bill Gates

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

— Gil Gerard

I don't even want to think about myself at 35 years old in 2029.

— Jeongyeon

Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.

— Tim LaHaye

Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!

— Vitali Klitschko

Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.

— Sam Ewing

I slummed it for years when I was a waiter or delivering Domino's Pizzas.

— Naughty Boy

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

— Johnny Olson

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

— Joyce Maynard

I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.

— Robert Altman

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

— Nancy Pelosi

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

— Brian De Palma

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

— Merlin Olsen

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

— Felicity Kendal