Years Quotes · Page 97

I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I…

— Dave Barry

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell…

— Jason Wu

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred…

— Anonymous

Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A…

— John Muir

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

— Annaleigh Ashford

One thing is sure: I really enjoyed my five years at Arsenal.

— Olivier Giroud

A few years ago I switched to an entirely different kind of New Year's resolution. Instead of vowing to improve, I pledge…

— Mel White

I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.

— Feist

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but…

— Daniel Inouye

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

— Peter Diamandis

She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow…

— Nicholas Sparks

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to…

— Shelby Foote

I actually met one of my business partners [Neal Dodson] at the Governor's School summer program, so we've known each other since…

— Zachary Quinto

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

— Yayoi Kusama

People forget I started on TV as a 7-stone 12-year-old - I'm bound to have changed. I've just grown up and filled…

— Kelvin Fletcher

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

— Hokusai

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for…

— Al Gore

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at…

— Marguerite Young

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only…

— Louis L'Amour

A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of…

— Ellen Kushner

I went to Brazil, and you get on the ground and you see it, and you could tell the government was in…

— Ken Moelis

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit…

— Peter Drucker

The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to…

— Oliver $

I'm trying to be among the elite night after night, year after year. I just want to be the best ... and…

— Ed Belfour

Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years…

— Liza Campbell

In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very…

— Edmund Gosse

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the…

— Lee Kuan Yew

Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those…

— Thomas Sowell

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and…

— Patrick Macnee

Of course, one of the most disturbing features is the fact that while we have had roughly a ten year pause in…

— Paul Virilio

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because…

— Chris O'Dowd

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do…

— Paula Fox

The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh.…

— Tyne Daly

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger…

— Nicole Krauss

More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no…

— Henry A. Kissinger

It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a…

— Zygmunt Bauman

There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.

— Helen Gurley Brown

When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.

— Wladimir Klitschko

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes,…

— Norman Mailer