Quotes about year
years challenges rising
I have been observing China for more than 30 years and am impressed how logically and wisely it tackles its problems. Obviously the international system could be unbalanced by China's rising power - if we don't prepare ourselves for the new competitive situation, that is. But it is an economic challenge, not aggression on the level of Hitler. Henry A. Kissinger
years academic-freedom tasks
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers. Henry Giroux
years feet height
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament. Henry Bessemer
years political goes-on
I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, & political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago. Henry Campbell-Bannerman
years people doe
People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change. Henry Blodget
years land long
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed Hendrik Willem Van Loon
years individual capacity
Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go. Heber J. Grant
years fifty packing
I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more. Hedy Lamarr
years quiet articles
I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me. Heather Mills
years printing century
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. Henry David Thoreau
years monkeys mask
Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey Matsuo Basho
years numbers england
It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years. Mary Steenburgen
years people heaven
She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth. Mary Webb
years answers
Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her. Patricia Briggs
years degrees used
I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.
years judging knocked-up
Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to. Pat Martin
years happens
A lot happens in 20 years. Pat Morita
years innovation style
So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring. Pat Oliphant
years people towns
One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
years long littles
The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down. Pat Paulsen
years people vision
I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions. Paddy Considine
years play twelve
For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety. Pablo Casals
years achieve difficult
The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.
years npr car
Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end-poor and minorities hardest hit." I like to argue with the radio. P. J. O'Rourke
years talking hours
You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year. Plato
years nobel prize
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. Philip Warren Anderson
years aging century
I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. Philip Larkin
years records next-year
Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year. Paula Abdul
years jeans dressing-up
Worldwide, most people dress more casually these days, don't they? They have done for the last 20 or 30 years, I suppose. So, every place that I go to, the majority of people really wear jeans, trainers, T-shirt - everybody seems to dress more for comfort. Whereas, even in my lifetime, even up to the early-'70s, there was still that thing of dressing up. Paul Weller
years two albums
I only put an album out every two or three years.
years names roots
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood Mac - the original Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Saveloy Brown - like British blues interpretations of it,' which then, when I started the liner notes and seeing all these names, I was like, 'Who's Willie Dixon?' Then I go to the record store and ask the guy there and he goes, 'Oh, you don't know anything.' And so, to me, that's the root of most of it anyway.
years lines trends
Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried. Phil Jones
years data trying
...We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it...