Quotes about years
years nostalgia young
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now. Edmund White
years ideas views
Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.
years ukulele
I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old. Edgar Winter
years outsiders wells
I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local." Edgar Wright
years mind looks
To bring the tools of science and to recognize that the flaw in the Cartesian Duality and to bring the tools of science to look at this question of mind and consciousness and to explore it using the tools of science â€" instead of saying, as has been the tradition for 400 years, that consciousness is not a proper subject for science to look at. Edgar Mitchell
years people nine
I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life. Bobby Moynihan
years land louisiana
Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island. Bobby Jindal
years people moral-corruption
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -The 5000 Year Leap Benjamin Franklin
years people rich
We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000. Barbara Mikulski
years body
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body... Barbara Mertz
years repeats
I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words. Auguste Rodin
years way advertising
I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. Augusten Burroughs
years people honest
People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.
years cities people
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.
years white long
The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
years alive ends
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. Arthur Miller
years blind whistler
There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler. Art Carney
years becoming-better people
If you're a manager and you're stuck doing the same thing year after year, you're going to get stale and not know how to motivate people. Part of becoming better at what you do requires challenging yourself on a constant basis. Art Briles
years shining mind
Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years. Art Garfunkel
years way lasts
Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
years baltimore cleveland
I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore Art Modell
years age mark
My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all. Art Linkletter
years goes-on done
I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought. Art Buchwald
years people important
Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.
years california america
Everything that I've accomplished in life was because of America and because of California, so I should take seven years out of my life to be a public servant and to serve the people of California regardless of the lack of pay. Arnold Schwarzenegger
years next evolution
The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution. Azim Premji
years red hook
My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. Ayelet Waldman
years looks want
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure. Ayn Rand
years differences
We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?
years games political
I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.
years looks moments
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...
years joy may
But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.
years water elements
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded. Bertrand Russell