Years Quotes · Page 235

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

— Anne Waldman

Elvis makes millions every year, although he's been dead for many years.

— Roxanne Roberts

If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.

— Andy Summers

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

— David Campese

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

— Ameen Rihani

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

— Barry Diller

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

— Florence King

I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.

— Noel Fisher

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of…

— Evangeline Lilly

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that…

— Terry Gilliam

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should…

— Rick Riordan

I had been writing songs from the age of 7 or 8 years old, and they were so bad. But it was…

— Raye

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs,…

— Victor Hugo

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the…

— Linus Pauling

A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my…

— Dennis Bergkamp

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years…

— Kent Haruf

The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been…

— Rachel Joyce

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only…

— Isaac Asimov

Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a…

— Doris Lessing

My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I…

— Valerie June

Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd…

— Robert B. Weide

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

— Mary Steenburgen

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

— Bode Miller

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

— H. L. Mencken

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

— Anthony Horowitz

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

— Star Jones

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

— Eydie Gorme

When my husband of almost 20 years can't take his eyes off me? That's amazing.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

— Samuel Johnson

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

— Douglas Wilson

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

— Swami Vivekananda

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.

— Mark Bittman

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

— Dirk Bogarde

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

— Bill Burr

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

— Jean-Claude Duvalier

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.

— Patrick Collison