Quotes about years
years biden charity
Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008. Larry Sabato
years comedian needs
I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to work. The kind of success that's happened to me maybe only happens to one comedian every twenty years and so I'm on the road constantly. Larry the Cable Guy
years names guy
We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.
years california next-year
When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass. Larry Wall
years cities league
Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape. Laird Barron
years house independence
The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years. Lajos Kossuth
years dinosaurs asteroids
This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. L. Neil Smith
years jeans shoes
In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet. P. J. O'Rourke
years europe mushrooms
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe. Paul Stamets
years judging lasts
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year. Paul Muldoon
years sculpture painting
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.... Paul Cezanne
years tragedy able
Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies. Patti Page
years odd show-business
In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing. Patsy Kelly
years half arthur
I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half. Patsy Cline
years appreciate taught
I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups. Patti LaBelle
years effort lasts
In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking. Irvin Kershner
years damn working-it
I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard. Imogen Heap
years two confusion
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics. Imre Lakatos
years california philippines
The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things. Imelda Marcos
years iraq three
In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded Ike Skelton
years twenties today
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right. Igor Stravinsky
years wire three
I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that. Idris Elba
years three accents
I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
years two comfort
The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage. Hunter Hayes
years two religion
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this. Huston Smith
years quitting seven
I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years. Gloria Stuart
years ties community
On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
years funny-things mind
Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second. Gloria Naylor
years erotic novel
I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel. Gloria Vanderbilt
years wanted
Ever since I was 7 years old, I wanted to be great. Gloria Trevi
years skeletons buried
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. Gloria Swanson
years ifs deprived
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
years body care
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.