Quotes about year
years cities people
LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself. Moby
years success-and-failure equal
I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.
years people unhappy
I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.
years realizing hanging-out
Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it. Mindy Kaling
years done hours
I work so hard and so many hours, and I've done that for years and years and years.
years long lessons
It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson. Mike Rogers
years ideas wish
I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane. Mike Rowe
years skiing very-good
When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing. Mikaela Shiffrin
years rubber balls
I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years. Mickey Rooney
years parks walks
Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park. Mickey Rourke
years trying beats
I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.
years pay-the-price people
I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.
years europe yellow
I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet. Kurt Loder
years people looks
A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they're going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is. Harry Shearer
years giving able
The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.
years great-year prove
Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again. Hanley Ramirez
years insanity monitoring
I have been monitoring your earthly broadcasts for many years. Frank Zappa
years people kevin
The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them. Fred Savage
years done forty
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet. Fred Saberhagen
years ham pancakes
It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year. Fred Melamed
years age goes-on
All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been! Fred Rogers
years people feelings
People have said, 'Don't cry' to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, 'I'm too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don't cry.' I'd rather have them say, 'Go ahead and cry. I'm here to be with you.'
years two-year-olds parent
Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.
years wish care
It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.
years giving advice
I intended to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year unused. George Harris
years trends matter
And so my music, it doesn't matter if I did it 20 years ago or if I did it tomorrow. It doesn't go with trends. My trousers don't get wider and tighter every six months. My music just stays what it is, and that's the way I like it. George Harrison
years trying four
When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying. Harmon Killebrew
years cinema birth
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal. Harmony Korine
years long adoption
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years. Harold Brodkey
years four three
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words. Haile Gebrselassie
years musical orchestra
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life. Gunther Schuller
years interesting way
Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed at how she gets into her own thoughts onto the screen in a very elegant and focused way. You have to see this. Gus Van Sant
years volunteer criminals
I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit. Gunter Grass