Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Bushnell Hart

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

Albert J. Nock

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews, but because they are folks, and I don’t like folks.

Albert Ellis

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Albert Ellis

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

Albert Brooks

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

America Ferrera

There are so many wonderful shows that come out through the year. What makes some stick is an unknown factor, you know? It's gotta be the right show at the right time. Really, you've got to have magic elements line up. But I felt that this was going to be something that was really going to ring true to people.

Amanda Hocking

I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.

Annie Dillard

I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

Annie Dillard

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

Anna Silk

When I started in the business, years ago, people would always say, "You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it's over." I don't see that with TV. Maybe it's because I am getting older, but the kinds of roles I'm drawn to are more mature roles.

AnnaLynne McCord

I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.

Clay Shirky

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

Claire Danes

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Daniel Johns

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

Daniel Johns

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.

Daniel Kahneman

Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.

Czeslaw Milosz

I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

D. A. Carson

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

Cristina Saralegui

If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.

Cristina Saralegui

People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.

Conor McPherson

I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that beyond became internalized in our psyche.

Danny Strong

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

Danny Glover

Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old and wearing a cape and a mask and white, you're out of business. Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

Danny Glover

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years

Daniel Day-Lewis

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

Daniel Dennett

In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

Dan Benishek

I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.

Dan Castellaneta

After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.

Dan Buettner

So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

Dan Buettner

Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.

Dan Chaon

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

David Filo

Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose—to be your guide around the web. You may not know how much you motivate us every day by using our products and sharing your ideas, but you do. Thank you.