Years Quotes

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

The best I can do is to make a film every two years.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.