Years Quotes

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

People say 'Hogan, you have this creative control clause?' and I say 'yeah, but the only time I've ever exercised it in 30 years is when Vince Russo screwed me'. And it didn't even help then! I got screwed and couldn't do anything about it!

The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?