30 Years Quotes

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.

The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.

For four years we've been cooperating exhaustively

Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

They say the number on rule in showbusiness is not to work with animals. I guess I'm above the rules because I put up with that for seven years.

Actually, I stopped looking at myself in the mirror years ago. I wasn't making it to work on time.

Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

One thing that I learned in recent years from working more with other people is this idea that part of a producer's job is to make people comfortable and confident.

I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.

I've had the same friends I've always had. I mean, I've lost a few over the years.

I ran away for a couple years just to prove I've hever been free.

Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

One-time revenue spikes that aren't repeatable won't help you achieve consistent year-after-year growth.