Quotes about years
years car house
I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy. Patton Oswalt
years house-of-cards three
Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life. Patti Smith
years records littles
I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. Patti Smith
years battle trying
We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that. Pat Travers
years literature care
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch. P. D. James
years pills different
For years I've had neurological problems. I used to shake a lot and I was on medication - I paid about $700,000 for one year of pills. I was taking 40-odd different ones a day. Ozzy Osbourne
years humanity messages
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short. P. G. Wodehouse
years feet age
While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.] Ovid
years contentment may
May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.] Ovid
years fleeting deceiving
Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years. Ovid
years feet age
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot. Ovid
years taught prison
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. Ovid
years china decades
I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade. Paul Oakenfold
years actors studios
Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio. Paul Newman
years historical records
I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully. Paul Farmer
years laughing fake
In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh. Paul Feig
years trying trouble
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble. Paul Bremer
years community looks
If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. Paul Bremer
years errors another-year
Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen. Paul Bowles
years eight want
Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again. Matthew Fox
years ideas drawing
I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show. Matt Groening
years temptation television
Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless. Matt Groening
years usa phrases
I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe bets; if they've been around for 2,000 years, there's a reason. It's often a title or just a phrase within the text that will compel me to adapt it. Mary Zimmerman
years feelings tides
For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream. Mary Wollstonecraft
years hyper time-of-my-life
I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life. Marya Hornbacher
years pressure news
The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year. Mary Hart
years television tvs
In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television. Mary Harron
years quality genius
Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push. Mary Hunter Austin
years two scary
It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary. Mary J. Blige
years needs kind
I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.' Mary J. Blige
years weather voice
People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time. Martha Gellhorn
years fellows hostile
Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up. Marshall McLuhan
years cases attorney
I have known Johnnie Cochran for many years as an attorney and personal friend, but he has already expressed publicly that he is not on this case. Mark Geragos