Quotes about years
years income life-is
I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality. Robert Reich
years wages workforce
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
years people conformity
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy. Robert Redford
years festivals way
We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.
years hell being-true
I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true. Robert Novak
years law numbers
In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement. Robert Mueller
years people twenties
Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you. Robbie Coltraine
years indie-rock rocks
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst. Rob Sheffield
years numbers together
Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.
years watches admire
I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later. Rob Zombie
years different sound
To me, an untrained ear, a young person at the time, I would hear off the different feels, all these different sounds, and then years later realize that everyone had used the same equipment, just to their own ends. Rob Brown
years rocks conservative
I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form. Rob Chapman
years trying way
The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.
years league black
They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary. Rob Halford
years iraq talking
No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years. Richard Perle
years complaining matter
If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend. Richard P. Feynman
years waiting half
So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!
years firsts students
If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .
years intellectual generations
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not known for a generation." After twenty years of Democratic rule, during which the intellectual had been in the main understood and respected, business had come back into power, bringing with it "the vulgarization which has been the almost invariable consequence of business supremacy. Richard Hofstadter
years answers lasts
An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.
years calendars playboy
The Playboy Calendar this year has some tiptop models. Any more top and they'd tip.
years hair bob
I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That was incredibly bizarre. Robert Pattinson
years mind lasts
Just last year I couldn't even get a date, and then this year… it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.
years essence progress
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. Robert Louis Stevenson
years giving joy
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
years waiting littles
In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists. Robert Fisk
years play guy
the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..." Wes Anderson
years being-thankful life-experience
Each year I become more mindful of being thankful for each life experience. Wally Amos
years broken despair
If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast Walt Disney
years people firsts
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
years soul despair
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim. Wassily Kandinsky
years rocks band
Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else. Walter Martin
years two pages
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. Walter Jon Williams