Quotes about years
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
years fifteen lasts
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years. Donald Judd
years ignorant grandfather
To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content. Donald Hall
years facts spending
In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the T E X project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do. Donald Knuth
years levels computer
I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.
years skins criticism
I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism. Don Watson
years comedian
It takes many years to be a great comedian. Don Rickles
years names facts
John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence. Dale Carnegie
years ideas shows
My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner. Cristela Alonzo
years people short-circuit
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people. Criss Angel
years dating wish
After dating for five years, my relationship with Irina Shayk has come to an end. We believed it would be best for both of us to take this step now. I wish Irina the greatest happiness. Cristiano Ronaldo
years community connections
The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years. Craig Mello
years people together
I would like to ask the many Filipino people to pray together, to help each other so that we will be able to preserve the democracy we restored 20 years ago. Corazon Aquino
years weather two
People should not say that this or that is not worth learning, giving as their reason that it will not be put to use. They can no more know what information they will need in the future than they will know the weather two hundred years from today. Clara Barton
years enhancement towns
In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly. Claude Levi-Strauss
years camping desert
Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. Daniel Silva
years creating eight
I've done seven movies in eight years, and with each movie I feel like I'm learning a lot. I'm still young-ish, so I still feel like I'm in the zone of learning and creating. Those are the perfect places to do that. And in a weird way, you have a lot of freedom. Daniel Radcliffe
years glasses mirrors
I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror
years get-better bass
I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.
years may six
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93. Daniel Boulud
years trying stories
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories. Daniel Clowes
years soldier lebanon
If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.
years kitchen environmental
Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste... We need to find ways to get this food into the mouths of the hungry and not into the mouth of the dumpster. Dan Glickman
years dvds forgiving
I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I'm 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up to that plate, as often as possible. I'm already bummed out that DVDs are dying off because, in my 20s, those were a huge thing. Dan Harmon
years two decision
I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV. Damian Lewis
years sycophants raw-talent
Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived. Cynthia Lennon
years preparation rotation
I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything. Cory Lidle
years one-day band
Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him. Count Basie
years two long
And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel far and wide. Cory Monteith
years waiting whole-life
I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself. Cory Doctorow
years drunk waiting
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.