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Years Quotes by Jane Smiley
- Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery,…
- When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving…
- Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long…
- I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two…
- If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are…
- There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are…
- In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
- In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than…
- Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at…
More Years Quotes
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson
- I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in… — Paulo Coelho
- Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. — Unknown Author
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong