Quotes about years
years play names
The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth. John Mahoney
years sweat wake-up
I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years. John Malkovich
years community patriotism
Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe. John Lukacs
years purpose life-is
Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence. John Lubbock
years cynical television
Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself. John Lydon
years lsd used
[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time. John Lennon
years giving earth
Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?
years political religion
I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.
years political spy
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own. John le Carre
years long facts
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected. John L. Phillips
years fiction done
You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological. John Barrowman
years doubt informed-consent
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
years trying fiction
There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction. Jodie Foster
years important energy
I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.
years age stones
I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age
years voice stills
I’ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact – really, it’s better. Jimmy Cliff
years important lasts
For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family. Jimmy Connors
years superhero disaster
Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes! Jimmy Carr
years dying mosquitoes
If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids
years two pirate
Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late. Jimmy Buffett
years new-orleans catalyst
And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
years spotlight singers
The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
years records hours
Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records. Jim Ramstad
years gone quitting
There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether. Jim Palmer
years two gasoline
After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system. Jim Sensenbrenner
years stories gray
Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories. Jim Lehrer
years two bird
I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers. Jim Parsons
years years-ago harps
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago. Joanna Newsom
years next
Now is the time to fix the next 10 years. Jim Rohn
years giving guy
It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'
years mentor lasts
Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’
years six-months week
Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.
years long lasts
Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough!