30 Years Quotes

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.

There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more you know, the higher your standards are and the more you have to lose.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught

I wish I could go tell 12-year-old me like I don't worry that you just fainted in front of all the girls, one day you'll be able to make this into an episode of TV.

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.

I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery on an international scale.

We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".

I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.

After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.

I'm kind of new to Twitter. I'm about one year in, so I'm a little late to the party.

I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

We're looking at a much worse [Hurricane] risk than people were thinking about a year ago ...some places are going to become uninsurable.

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel.

WikiLeaks is a source protection organization. We are famous for never having exposed one of our sources over 10 years. That's why sources trust us and they come to us.

I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

Year after year. "Please don't make me go [to school]" "You have to go," Kim would say. "It's a new school, make a new start." "Sticks and stones." from Chip. Words will only kill you.

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year.

I hate that whole Tarantino thing about beating up women and killing them and chopping up. Just because you have the mind of a 12 year old.

You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine.

If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.

Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

 My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.