Quotes about years
years ideas able
A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence. Jane Harman
years pennies dollars
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year. Ben Feldman
years use trials
If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have. Ben Goldacre
years eight effort
I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts. Ben Fountain
years people strange
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. Carl Sandburg
years cities differences
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
years editors two
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
years thousand stills
I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything. Cam Gigandet
years careers sound
Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers. Cam Newton
years good-man true-or-false
Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever. C. S. Lewis
years bob dylan
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan. Burton Cummings
years design whole
At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do. Burt Rutan
years way shows
When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things. Celine Dion
years kitchen tables
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
years goal wife
Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations. Cesar Millan
years america age
When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.
years people peaceful
Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor. Cesar Chavez
years next-day people
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day. Catherine Opie
years feel-good tvs
I've been doing makeovers on TV for years and years and years. It's something I really know how to do. I also know personally what it's like to not feel good about yourself. Carson Kressley
years two people
For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself. Carroll Quigley
years important different
After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods.
years wreckage columns
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years. Carson McCullers
years trying together
Listen,” F. Jasmine said. “What I’ve been trying to say is this. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I can’t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange?
years looks mammals
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random. Carl Zimmer
years names honor
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor. Carl Schurz
years two people
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? Alan Lightman
years another-year novel
My second novel, Good Benito, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
years two trying
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. Alan Dean Foster
years identity taught
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. Alan Dundes
years students
I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time. Alan Dershowitz
years harvard feels
I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.
years issues mad
I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it. Al Yankovic
years careers people
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.