Quotes about year
years people facts
All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion. But coming out of the super-super-commerical pop industry in the 90s, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things. Robyn
years drs daleks
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was. Robyn Hitchcock
years two purpose
At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present. Roberto Goizueta
years fifteen matter
Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality. Robertson Davies
years history curiosity
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. Robert Staughton Lynd
years radio grew
I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio. Robert Stack
years wildfires
Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
years answers lasts
An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.
years calendars playboy
The Playboy Calendar this year has some tiptop models. Any more top and they'd tip.
years hair bob
I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That was incredibly bizarre. Robert Pattinson
years mind lasts
Just last year I couldn't even get a date, and then this year… it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.
years essence progress
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. Robert Louis Stevenson
years giving joy
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
years waiting littles
In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists. Robert Fisk
years play guy
the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..." Wes Anderson
years being-thankful life-experience
Each year I become more mindful of being thankful for each life experience. Wally Amos
years broken despair
If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast Walt Disney
years people firsts
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
years house doubt
There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change. Vinod Khosla
years tipping climate
Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
years patterns farming
There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding ... Vita Sackville-West
years car waiting
I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did Sarah Dessen
years grilling cookbook
One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round. Sandra Lee
years use today
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today. Sandra Day O'Connor
years politics vote
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
years would-be hayek
I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek. Roselyn Sanchez
years firsts twenties
The first twenty years of my life were wasted...I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other. Rose Wilder Lane
years nine firsts
You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing. Roseanne Barr
years parent taught
I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.
years perfection problem
The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back. Ronnie O'Sullivan
years waiting doe
Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once. Rory Bremner
years people dollars
One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
years groups shame
Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame. Ronnie Spector