Quotes about years
years next-year palaces
I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace. Mel Tillis
years two house
Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand Mary Landrieu
years overnight-success publishing
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years. Mary Karr
years trying live-for-others
By trying to live Christmas 12 months a year, we CAN make this world a better place to live - for others and for ourselves. Mary Kay Ash
years training intellectual
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. Mary Augusta Ward
years bird evolution
Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed. Marvin Minsky
years ideas childhood
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.
years pet computer
Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.
years car support
Bentley and Lamborghini have been achieving record sales for years. This doesn't support the notion that these models are suddenly social pariahs. There will always be a place for these kinds of cars. Martin Winterkorn
years two doe
Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me. Martin Van Creveld
years weather two
A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay. Martin Short
years switzerland speak
I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German. Martina Hingis
years google marketing
Why is an accountant who knows the regulation and codes and takes advantage of tax loopholes that save you thousands of dollars each year good, But SEO's who take advantages of loopholes and flaws in Google's algorithm to bring you traffic that makes you thousands of dollars bad? Michael Gray
years play promise
I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year. Michael Gambon
years geek tragic
For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek Michael Gove
years gaza-strip iraq
I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine. Michael Franti
years let-it-go wake-up
I've been in those relationships. You go through years of your life and at a certain point you wake up and you go, god, what am I doing here? What have I spent the last three years doing? Part of it is learning, this process you've gotta go through. You have to recognize the point at which you're not learning anymore, and be able to let it go.
years defense department
The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got. Michael Chertoff
years workaholic plus
I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year. Michael Chiklis
years different sometimes
I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses. Michael Connelly
years together males
It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman. Michael Chabon
years names two
For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design. Michael Arad
years evil waiting
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year? Mencius
years parent independence
I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence. Michelle Williams
years people appreciate
To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000. Michio Kaku
years brain mind
We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.
years essence common-sense
If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.
years symphony space
The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.
years wire steel
When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.
years two world
If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three. Michel Patini
years appreciate quality
Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate. Michel Gondry
years careers gold
I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done. Michael Johnson
years eighteen-years-old checks
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. Michael J. Fox