Quotes about year
years mad waiting
I'm kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard. Lil Wayne
years class people
The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis... The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves. Leo Tolstoy
years thought-provoking mind
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.
years careers giving
I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him. Leslie Moonves
years two surfing
I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.
years minorities lasts
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. Peter Fenn
years dollars painting
Picasso didn't stop painting when he was 41 years old because he felt he wasn't relevant, but he kept going and the painting he made before he died are now worth 40 million dollars. Peter Frampton
years florida association
I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association. Peter Fonda
years lucky politician
I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced. Peter Biskind
years financial journalist
I've been a financial journalist for 30 years. Peter Brimelow
years feet goal
For 20 years they have asked me the same question, who is the greatest? Pele or Maradona? I replay that all you have to do is look at the facts - how many goals did he score with his right foot or with his head? Pele
years politics christ
If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion. Phil Crane
years lasts globalization
We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years. Phil Gramm
years twenties dare
And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this? Peter S. Beagle
years people majority
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best. Peter Senge
years play focus
Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved.
years community leader
Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities have been quite resistant to this. The test is whether the political process continues. Peter Rodman
years interesting sober
Being sober for so many years is getting interesting. Peter O'Toole
years important matter
Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me. Peter Hollingworth
years shows five-years
When you're on a show for five years, everyone becomes friends. It's great. Peter Jacobson
years empires execution
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Peter Jennings
years america problem
Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.
years play two
If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me Pete Sampras
years swings forever
Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.
years tennis looks
I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.
years lasts firsts
Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being. Pedro Martinez
years fiction want
I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way. Piers Anthony
years behinds eighteen
I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. Phyllis Diller
years eight smoking
My eight-year-old bought a bicycle with the money he saved by not smoking.
years use cleaning
I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.
years ukulele sophomore
I started doing improv my sophomore year. Rachel Dratch
years childhood soil
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Rachel Carson
years looks pleasure
1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis. Queen Elizabeth II