Quotes about years
years forget enough
Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough. Lionel Richie
years play careers
Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given. Lionel Messi
years half linux
I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before. Linus Torvalds
years dancing
I've been dancing for 10 years. Lindsay Ellingson
years important immigration
I am confident - very confident - that if I help solve this problem in a way that we won't have 20 million illegal immigrants 20 years from now, not only will I get re-elected, I can look back and say I was involved in something that was important. Lindsey Graham
years careers government
I had a 20-year, stellar government career. Linda Tripp
years numbers people
Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally. Linda Ronstadt
years laughing nudists
I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh? Linda Lael Miller
years hands office
In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
years listening-ear tree
A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf. Linda Hogan
years careers would-be
I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops. Linda Evangelista
years good-years three
When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.
years different needs
When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions. Lil Jon
years enemy victory
Victory Consistently, train all year to be the enemy's misery! Lil Wayne
years mad waiting
I'm kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard.
years class people
The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis... The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves. Leo Tolstoy
years thought-provoking mind
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.
years careers giving
I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him. Leslie Moonves
years two surfing
I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.
years minorities lasts
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. Peter Fenn
years dollars painting
Picasso didn't stop painting when he was 41 years old because he felt he wasn't relevant, but he kept going and the painting he made before he died are now worth 40 million dollars. Peter Frampton
years florida association
I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association. Peter Fonda
years lucky politician
I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced. Peter Biskind
years financial journalist
I've been a financial journalist for 30 years. Peter Brimelow
years feet goal
For 20 years they have asked me the same question, who is the greatest? Pele or Maradona? I replay that all you have to do is look at the facts - how many goals did he score with his right foot or with his head? Pele
years politics christ
If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion. Phil Crane
years lasts globalization
We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years. Phil Gramm
years twenties dare
And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this? Peter S. Beagle
years people majority
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best. Peter Senge
years play focus
Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved.
years community leader
Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities have been quite resistant to this. The test is whether the political process continues. Peter Rodman
years interesting sober
Being sober for so many years is getting interesting. Peter O'Toole
years important matter
Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me. Peter Hollingworth