30 Years Quotes

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase.

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.

It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody in your family has had a job for the last thousand years.

In South Korea, a scientist considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of cloning has been sentenced to two years in prison. At least, they think it's him.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

I'll see you again in a thousand years.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.

You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.

As an actor, throughout three years, I've become more comfortable within my own skin and confident.

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.