Quotes about years
years age christianity
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age. Charles Darwin
years practice three
If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively.
years four stories
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. Charles Bass
years people voting
Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor. Charles Barkley
years vintage stuff
I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used. Channing Tatum
years two levels
I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
years careers lucky
I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old. Alanis Morissette
years lasts film
I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now. Blair Underwood
years eight trying
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really. Billy Boyd
years directors actors
All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part. Billy Bob Thornton
years two half
When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it and it has to be something you care about. I've found something that I do care about.
years knowing scripts
I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.
years ark noahs-ark
It took us 2,000 years to find Noah's ark. Do we ever find Flight 370? Bill Hemmer
years people age
Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years. Bill Hicks
years clubs idiot
I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'
years want packs
If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack. Chris Evans
years soul rewards
If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price. Charles Spurgeon
years giving generosity
In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
years murmuring praying
Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.
years age mark
My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all. Art Linkletter
years goes-on done
I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought. Art Buchwald
years people important
Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.
years california america
Everything that I've accomplished in life was because of America and because of California, so I should take seven years out of my life to be a public servant and to serve the people of California regardless of the lack of pay. Arnold Schwarzenegger
years next evolution
The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution. Azim Premji
years red hook
My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. Ayelet Waldman
years looks want
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure. Ayn Rand
years differences
We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?
years games political
I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.
years looks moments
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...
years joy may
But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.
years water elements
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded. Bertrand Russell
years fifty analysis
The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. Benjamin Cardozo
years law voice
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.