30 Years Quotes

[Jack Johnson] really helped me make the record, put it out, and then let me tour with him for two years. He really helped me out.

My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.

It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.

Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't even know if I dreamed this big.

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.

And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.

I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.

I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

When I was four years old I watched the movie every day. I was totally obsessed.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says. "What did you wish for?" Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.

Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.