Quotes about years
years law numbers
Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax. Norman Ralph Augustine
years phones waiting
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't. Orson Welles
years two-year-olds people
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
years differences personality
Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando. Orlando Jones
years roles london
I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role. Orlando Bloom
years balance barns
The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception. Oliver Wendell Holmes
years two-year-olds people
Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy) Oliver Sacks
years age fifteen
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
years
I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old. Oleg Cassini
years thank-god together
Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing. Olga Korbut
years three fifty
I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
years brain imagine
Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved! Olga Kurylenko
years people fortune
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway. Octavia Butler
years fifty three
I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.
years challenges obstacles
Each year represents new challenges and obstacles. You have to adjust. Novak Djokovic
years want wanted
I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.
years goal trying
I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals.
years way return
Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty. Norton Juster
years careers decision
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life. Norman Vincent Peale
years world looks
You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down. Emilio Estevez
years long twenties
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. Emile M. Cioran
years curiosity one-day
I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.
years names numbers
As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.
years cells firsts
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
years four firsts
It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company. Ellen Malcolm
years differences making-a-difference
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. Ellen Glasgow
years novel great-novels
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
years want youth
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
years culture mit
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. Eric S. Raymond
years judgement surveillance
There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society. Eric Schmidt
years wife way
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later. Eric Allin Cornell
years surprise passing
With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
years year-end issues
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. Eric Alterman