Quotes about years
years wind pyramids
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion. [Lat., Exegi monumentum aera perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam.] Horace
years brooklyn raised
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years. Herbie Mann
years problem century
Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion. Herman Kahn
years nuclear use
My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.
years playing-jazz jazz
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since. Herbie Hancock
years differences decision
I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music.
years together esp
I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.
years numbers america
In my case, that number is 45. And given that I was born on December 13, 1945 my conception, gestation, and birth all occurred within that year that number has been with me, literally, for all my life, to date. The number 45 keeps on popping up as I go about the business of getting elected you guessed it as the forty-fifth president of the United States of America. Herman Cain
years expression human-nature
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature. Herman Melville
years long sailing
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
years want employee
Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year. Herb Kohl
years self payment
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it. Henry David Thoreau
years christ reincarnation
I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.
years silence three
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
years here-i-am four
Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn.
years perspective mountain
The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.
years long people
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. Gyorgy Ligeti
years people records
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H. L. Mencken
years law three
In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law. Jean-Marie Le Pen
years ideas bored
it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself. Jilly Cooper
years feet balls
That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from "Six Feet Under." He didn't really like to have too many pop culture references because they don't really hold up after a few years. Jill Soloway
years may rhyming
I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now. Jill Scott
years people feels
Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them. Jessica Cutler
years enough projects
Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on. Jessica Livingston
years products one-thing
The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.
years macs comfortable
I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it. Jerry Goldsmith
years eight people
I was so honored to be on 'Entourage' for eight years but I want to show people that I can do other things. Jerry Ferrara
years fishing air
I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool. Jerry Doyle
years people trying
I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully. Jerry Garcia
years trying buying
We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
years play three
I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler. Jeremy Bulloch
years monsters weak
Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition. Jeremy Grantham
years clapping series
I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series. Jennifer Ehle