30 Years Quotes

I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.

Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.

I've sort of done a play every four or five years I guess if I look back in my career. And I think that's good.

We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.

I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet to live better in five years than we do today.

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

Twenty-four years ago I went through a profound conversion of heart and God led me to the Catholic Church. A few years later I felt Him calling me to start a Bible study program.

I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.

I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.

I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. [He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

I had an experience a few years ago where I was on a plane in which one of the engines went out. I couldn't even remember my name. I was just repeating the word no over and over.

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

Conservative activists want [Stephen] Bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.