Quotes about years
years ties free-spirit
A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress. Drew Barrymore
years iron impact
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. Douglas Rushkoff
years organization causes
Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs? Dorothy Thompson
years fields fascination
To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years. Donald Cram
years trying schedules
My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output. Donald E. Westlake
years mind frozen
The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much. Don DeLillo
years victory four
I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years. Donald T. Regan
years small-moments life-happiness
You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it. Donatella Versace
years identity important
It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.
years leader trying
Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison. Don Imus
years places-to-go method
Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same. Don Herold
years style hips
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'. Don Ellis
years levels looks
The Dies tournament is always hard. We look forward to it every year from a competitive level. This is one of the biggest highlights of our season. This tournament has excellent tradition. Don King
years comedy yeah
Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year. Dylan McDermott
years america journalism
I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed. Dylan Moran
years trying stuff
Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.
years america poverty
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. Dwight D. Eisenhower
years voters politician
Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.
years employment levels
There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives. Douglas Alexander
years dozen comedy
In 20 years of comedy, I've probably had a dozen good points. Doug Stanhope
years firsts said
The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline. Douglas Adams
years long mind
Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.
years two deep-thought
For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was...
years lasts shock
I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
years stuff
Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that. Doris Roberts
years mind may
It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later. Doris Lessing
years parent
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
years records lasts
I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon. Donna Summer
years pieces want
Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress. Donna Tartt
years experience weight
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
years private-sector knows
As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector. Donald Evans
years growth growing
Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years.
years choices fossils
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. Donald Johanson