30 Years Quotes

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored.

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.

In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

I don't think there's a lot of carry-over from year to year. I don't think anybody cares what you did the year before.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

Just the thought of anything Hawaiian gets me high! I appreciate the good cannabis that people have spent years perfecting but I also enjoy the cheap stuff. I guess you could say I like it all.

I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

I think my best years are ahead of me and that's exciting.

The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.

Theres always next year, ... except, you know, for Ray Romano.

For me, that's where my spiritual practice comes in. It's come from a lot of people that I've met that have influenced me over the years, and it's remembering those people, what they taught me.

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'

I'm 29 years-old and, sure, I'm looking to find a wife.