Quotes about year
years firsts hours
I watched Anderson Cooper 360 for a year before I realized that the second hour was a repeat of the first. I just thought his reporting seemed familiar. Andy Kindler
years doe comedy
Why does Louis CK get named Comedy Person of the Year? I should be named Comedy Person of the Year just so I can parlay it into another few weeks of road work.
years world years-ago
The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago. Andrew Denton
years office producers
A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip. Andrew Davies
years flood
There's no such thing as a 100-year flood. Andrew Cuomo
years reptiles four
You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you cannot even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap. Ambrose Bierce
years practice design
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years. Anthony Holden
years mentor years-ago
I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor. Anthony Hopkins
years enemy lasts
Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.
years next-day jumping
I don't have any expectations about my films. If they're good, they're good - if they're not, they're not. About 10 years ago, I remember going to see one of my movies - I can't even remember which one now - and everyone was jumping up and down, getting excited, saying what a great film it was going to be. We all went in and watched it, and it was the slowest movie I've ever seen. The next day, the reviews were terrible and half the studio was fired.
years feelings intuition
First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition. Alisher Usmanov
years mainstream-culture feminism
I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago. Alison Bechdel
years people shadow
The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back. Alice Sebold
years nine succeed
It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.
years people paper
I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. Alice Walker
years able richness
She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
years heartache childhood
In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled. Alice Meynell
years law peaceful
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force. Anne-Marie Slaughter
years people calling
When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. Anne M. Mulcahy
years catholic church
For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular. Ann Widdecombe
years done records
I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous. Ann Wilson
years waiting-in-line one-day
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me . . . and asked me in a whisper . . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can." Anna Akhmatova
years losing awareness
This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity. Ann Voskamp
years play long
I'm just glad to see that Pete (Sampras) shut everyone up last year. That was satisfying. You can't bag on guys like Pete or Tiger (Woods) or Michael Jordan. They can play as long as they want, they can do whatever they want. Nobody should be able to tell them differently. Andy Roddick
years government profound
For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom. Alben W. Barkley
years class white
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 Bushnell Hart
years jew folks
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 J. Nock
years listening six
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
years people criticism
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
years mind want
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. Albert Brooks
years debt drink
I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
years people magic
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. America Ferrera
years lasts stills
I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years. Amanda Hocking