30 Years Quotes

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!

My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition.

We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.

Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

I want to see my friends who I have not seen about a year since I've started to do the whole recording thing. I love to sit down with them and have a coffee. I also want to go see movies.

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!

A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.

All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving 'tax cuts' to people who don't pay taxes.

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.

Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused.

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.

I've been saying for years, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time on cyber security.

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.