Quotes about year
years intellectual twenties
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives. Camille Paglia
years humanity mountain
I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason. Caleb Carr
years stories world
But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened. Caitlin Moran
years want honest
But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.
years would-be world
Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed. C. S. Forester
years long joy
The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow. Bryan Procter
years cost lines
This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
years race expectations
I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old. Cathy Freeman
years careers asthma
When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.
years graduates five-years
Allow yourself to graduate, every five years. Cathy Guisewite
years two dieting
After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.
years office aluminum-foil
Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.
years humanity earth
Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither. Catherynne M. Valente
years broken
I have broken my collarbone twice in a year. Casey Stoner
years talking stronger
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger. Casey Kasem
years radio changed
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years.
years hitting brown
Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one. Casey Stengel
years vegan best-performance
My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan. Carl Lewis
years gold four
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
years track competition
My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.
years weapons command
You shall more command with years than with your weapons. William Shakespeare
years vapor
I am declined Into the vale of years.
years two ego
I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times. Louis C. K.
years stories ordinary
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is. Kurt Vonnegut
years iraq giving
I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.
years secret imagine
He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was.
years numbers giving
I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20 years and the response I have to give them is that I still consider myself a student. The more pictures I've made in 20 years, the more I realize I really don't know. And I'm always looking for something or someone that I could learn from. I tell the younger filmmakers, and the young students, that do it like painters used to do—that painters do—study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn. Martin Scorsese
years class voice
Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.' Charley Reese
years people shows
I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years. Charley Pride
years two rivers
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico. Charles Kuralt
years flying would-be
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time. Charles Lindbergh
years crow rubber
A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow. Charles Krauthammer
years other-worlds nasa
If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.