30 Years Quotes

It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released

If you ask any couple who have been married 50 years or longer, they will tell you they've experienced it all. The same is true of the Beach Boys.

I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.

Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.

You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.

My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!'

The problem is we bear grudges that go a thousand years into the past. Really, I could find people who begrudge the Greeks for doing awful things to the Bulgarians more than a thousand years ago.

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

I feel that I deserve to hear just some words to justify the actions of an organization that I have honored and promoted every day of my nearly 30-year existence in it.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.

This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

You’re adored and you’re talented and the world is waiting to see the results of hard work for the last year

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.

You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.

I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.

The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid, I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows whos behind the screen so you cant tell Im a 12-year-old.

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a child, as a lot hadn't been published (a lot more resources are available now).

Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't believe you've arrived until you get a stalker.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

Dave Jones got to the final last year and lost in the semi-final this year, so progress has definitely been made

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.