30 Years Quotes

In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most politically correct words and phrases. Top

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.

The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.

It seemed she was in a cathedral—if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

My Worst Political Move of the 2015 Year. John Boehner inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address the joint session of Congress.

I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old - an actor!

I remember telling ghost stories with my cousins when I was four, five, six-years-old. I've just always loved it. But I think you're drawn to things you're terrified of.

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my right leg. I hope this gives me a leg up on the new year!

I sucked in the smell of her perfume, Viva La Juicy, and was swept away. La Juicy was part of my oxygen supply, even for the year and a half we were apart.

I think I existed on four hours sleep a night for four years.

I'm not into younger men. A couple of years younger, maybe, but I'm not a cougar. I'm not a panther either.

I was on Stealing Beauty in 1996 and then I started feeling acting was something I wanted to do forever. It made me feel like I'll still be looking for parts when I'm 70 years old.

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

My job has me traveling all the time, and I got this house, so my downtime is spent sort of making a home. Every year it's different, and I try to do things that are more fulfilling.

Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune.

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.

If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

I have known Johnnie Cochran for many years as an attorney and personal friend, but he has already expressed publicly that he is not on this case.

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.

If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.