30 Years Quotes

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then I translated that to playing boys in animated shows. I was like, "Whoa, this is intense."

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible

Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.

You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.

The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

I only put an album out every two or three years.

I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide.

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.

Most of the time after the US Open, it is kind of like you are trying to finish strong. But to do it five years and maybe six is something that has never been done before, so it is a huge challenge.

When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.

I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

When you're on a show for five years, everyone becomes friends. It's great.

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.

In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

Three, four, five years, we’re out of here. You know what I’m saying? It’s a TV show. This thing ain’t gonna last forever. No way.

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.