Quotes about years
years awards achievement
I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award? Michael Palin
years police world
Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world. Michael Parenti
years lessons interviews
I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure. Michael Madsen
years rights united-states
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council. Michael McCaul
years nuts people
I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts. Neal Schon
years people gone
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market. Neal Stephenson
years games self
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. Neal Stephenson
years squirrels six-year-olds
In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element. Neal Shusterman
years smoking one-day
Stopping smoking was most dramatic for me. After 23 years, I picked up a cigarette one day and didn't know why I was doing it. Smoking was no longer in alignment with what I had intended to experience of myself. Neale Donald Walsch
years understanding growth
Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead. Neale Donald Walsch
years parent together
The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family. Nancy Sinatra
years astrology people
Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years. Nancy Reagan
years library lucky
A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie. Nancy Reagan
years trying liberty
After 100 years of trying, finally we passed health care for all Americans as a right for all - not just a privilege for a few. It honored the vows of our Founders: Of life, a healthier life; liberty; the freedom to pursue our own happinesses. ... We knew that ... this bill was ironclad constitutionally. Nancy Pelosi
years two people
Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life. Nancy Pelosi
years done stories
A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever. Morley Safer
years two three
I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. Morley Safer
years alive hundred
One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive. Morrie Schwartz
years different-experiences long
You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting. Morgan Freeman
years saws firsts
All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that. Morgan Freeman
years america tvs
I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like 'Coming to America' or 'Misery' or 'Moonstruck. Morena Baccarin
years play like-you
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself. Miles Davis
years giving one-day
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington. Miles Davis
years practice play
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it? Miles Davis
years tv-shows eight
Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don't have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that. Mila Kunis
years fans fey
I'm a huge, huge, huge fan of Steve Carrell and Tina Fey for years. Mila Kunis
years long noise
Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year. Milan Kundera
years important three
The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart. Milan Kundera
years knowing decision
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change. Milan Kundera
years want matter
what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older" what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am. Milan Kundera
years boxing decision
After 14 years in boxing, the best decision I could have made was to take the last year off. My mind was not in boxing, but since I got here with Freddie, everything is working perfectly again. Boxing is all I know. Boxing is my life. Through boxing, I raised my family and I work to provide the best future for them. They are the reason I love boxing. Miguel Cotto
years lucky arms
I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding. Micky Dolenz
years needed stills
I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through. Margaret Whiting