Quotes about years
years guitar thankfulness
Jerry Reed I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.
years people fundamentals
Jerry Pournelle It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental.
years building plunder
Jerry Pournelle We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.
years editors rejection
Jerry Spinelli It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.
years painting rage
Jerry Saltz I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
years serious groups
Jerry Saltz Of all the biennials, triennials, quadrennials, internationals, and massive group shows, Documenta, established in 1955 and held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, is seen as the most serious. A statement show.
years impression bother
Jerry Seinfeld Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.
years people three
Jerry Seinfeld Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it's a relic,
years blenders
Jerry Seinfeld Having a 2 year old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for.
years lunch meditation
Jerry Seinfeld Every day when everybody would have lunch I would do TM [Transcendental Meditation] and then I would eat while I was working because I had missed lunch but that is how I survived the 9 years [of Seinfeld], it was that 20 minutes in the middle of the day would save me.
years dies
Jerrold Nadler Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.
years giving fifty
Jerome K. Jerome Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.
years discrepancies-between gaps
Jeremiah P. Ostriker The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.
years organization decision
Jenny Shipley Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.
years welcome stills
Jeffrey Jones I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.
years people negative
Jeffrey Gitomer Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.
years car people
Jeffrey Eugenides Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.
years doctors needs
Jeff Jarvis Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)
years gone
Jeff Lynne As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!
years stills
Jeff Lynne I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.
years two done
Jeff Koons If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
years umpires training
Jim Evans Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.
years chasing frisbee
Jim Gaffigan Playing frisbee with a five year old is amazingly similar to chasing after a frisbee.
years quality wish
Jim Gaffigan It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.'
years ideas tickets
Jim Gaffigan I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.
years dating guy
Jesse Metcalfe I don't want to be one of those 40-something guys in L.A. still dating, still going out to clubs and chasing 21-year-olds. It's not a good look.
years media states
Jesse Helms I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.
years careers dancing
Jennifer Lopez I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.
years skills people
Jeffrey Pfeffer Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.
years effort heartless
Jeffrey Sachs All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response.
years goal magic
Jeffrey Sachs My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is none. These are just basic problems requiring basic work. Nothing magic about it.
years long world
Jeffrey Sachs In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.