Quotes about years
years white long
The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
years alive ends
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. Arthur Miller
years blind whistler
There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler. Art Carney
years becoming-better people
If you're a manager and you're stuck doing the same thing year after year, you're going to get stale and not know how to motivate people. Part of becoming better at what you do requires challenging yourself on a constant basis. Art Briles
years shining mind
Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years. Art Garfunkel
years way lasts
Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
years baltimore cleveland
I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore Art Modell
years play otters
All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play. Dick Van Dyke
years radio captains
I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.
years touching psychologist
After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.” Dennis Wolfberg
years linux research
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. Dennis Ritchie
years civilization worry
Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years' time, one of us will be proved right . . . Dennis Prager
years eight used
I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now its down to eight. Dennis Crowley
years realizing throwing
It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better. Dennis Eckersley
years pages something-new
I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!
years effort growth
We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth. Denis Hayes
years land acres
An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.
years office volunteer
There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.
years humanity energy
By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.
years wanted five-year-olds
When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act. Debra Wilson
years firsts lists
Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka. Deborah Smith
years london firsts
I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.
years three-years three
I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA. Debra Winger
years office records
1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate. Dee Dee Myers
years
I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively. Deana Carter
years long progress
DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in the year 2005, but our earnings are still not where we want them to be. We intend to grow profitably and to create added value over the long term - for the benefit of our customers, employees and shareholders. Dieter Zetsche
years leaving mind
The downside was that for 400 years, science has grown up, has arisen and developed as a purely materialist concept and avoided the subject of mind and consciousness, leaving it to the realm of religion. Only with the founding of quantum science in the early part of the 20th century have we realized that the Cartesian Duality is wrong, that body, mind, physicality do interact and they're interrelated. Edgar Mitchell
years names soul
For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.... Edgar Allan Poe
years secret tragedy
The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking. Eleanor Roosevelt
years citizens brazil
I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen. Eduardo Saverin
years mind use
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. Edsger Dijkstra
years lazy sitting
Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables Edward Abbey
years anarchy thousand-years
Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.