Quotes about years
years political world
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. John Jay Chapman
years tendencies walks
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. John James Audubon
years four negotiation
…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old… John Irving
years civilization perception
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
years stories months
Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.
years ideas numbers
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate. John Howe
years vocabulary messages
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped. John Humphrys
years achievement stories
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me. John Hawkes
years treasure remuneration
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor. John Henry Newman
years use affection
The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year. John Garamendi
years creative earth
What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative. John Frusciante
years next ends
A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next. John Evelyn
years president together
It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together. John F. Kerry
years political moral
It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.
years four osama-bin-laden
Ask Osama bin Laden if he's better off now than he was four years ago.
years people lasts
In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people. John Dos Passos
years midnight
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's. John Donne
years different london
I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.
years nbc president
Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents. John Oliver
years goal lasts
Gary Lineker has now scored 37 goals. That is precisely twice as many as last year. John Motson
years lunch pigs
On the three pigs he and his wife own: "We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has always been very fond of pigs. Of course, they are for eating, which is why they are named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. You wouldn’t want to eat Rufus, Marcus and Esmeralda. John Mortimer
years worry three
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
years class parent
My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that. John Michael Higgins
years age lasts
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. John Denham
years smoking hey
Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum John Candy
years long four
I stopped directing in 2001 for four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out. John Carpenter
years year-end google
It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to. John Battelle
years games two
Every once in awhile, Allison Abbate would drop a note and say, "It's going really well!," and I was like, "Great!" So, I had not seen it in about two years. They went off and started shooting, and I saw it all put together with almost the final sound mix and it was remarkable. I was so, so happy and relieved, not in the sense that I thought something had gone wrong, but you just don't know what something is going to be like until you see it put together. Everyone stepped up and brought their A+ game. John August
years quitting
After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit, Joel McCrea
years deny shows
If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000. Joel Hodgson
years paychecks steady
I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck. Joe Lando
years oil canada
At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas Joe Greene
years people way
The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.