Quotes about year
years wrinkles skins
I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet. Ruby Wax
years fake pox
Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.
years snakes firsts
The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year. Ross Perot
years two television
The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content. Rosie O'Donnell
years oil landscape
After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils. Ron Parker
years
Everybody thought of me as Arnold Horshack. I resented Horshack for so many years. Ron Palillo
years careers mirrors
An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product. Ron Livingston
years rivers locks
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. Ron Kind
years government democracy
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
years giving people
If I put my mind to it, and I put the work in, I have no doubt I could do it (pitch 4-5 additional years), but I made a promise to the people who've supported me for so many years. It's time to give back to my family. Roger Clemens
years done
I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen. Sam Rockwell
years names trying
The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just about flunked out the first year, but a commandant by the name of Bush Bringle managed to call me in one day and taught me more about leadership in about 15 minutes than I have learned in the rest of my life. And because of Bush Bringle I regained some faith and confidence in myself, learning I had a little bit more in me than I thought, and I went back to work and finished. Sam Smith
years land car
Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day. Sam Shepard
years minimum-wage levels
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. Russ Carnahan
years oil pumps
Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.
years acting campaigns
I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin. Rupert Penry-Jones
years understanding research
Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough. Rupert Sheldrake
years fcc judging
People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court. Russ Feingold
years government lasts
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.
years oil opening-up
Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package.
years kind trump
All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump. Rush Limbaugh
years perspective different
It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different.
years hours seems
If you ever find that you only have an hour to live .... spend it with a liberal and it will seem like a year.
years proud best-year
I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever! Thomas Menino
years luxury income
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year. Thomas Malthus
years world earth
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.
years environmental population
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
years discovery found
When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Thomas Merton
years three would-be
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. Thomas Carlyle
years treasure found
Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows. Tony Levin
years car people
Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there’s no points involved [with the pole]. Tony Kornheiser
years important half
The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth. Tony Juniper
years stuff-happens rewards
If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it's actually how a lot of stuff happens. Tony Hsieh