30 Years Quotes

I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.

I was 40-something years old. I hadn't shown any entrepreneurial spunk up until that point.

I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.

Look at me – it's taken 10 years off me today. It's these tablets, they're great!

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

Not one day goes by when I don't remind myself of how grateful I am for those who came before me over the last 25 years. When I see players like Mike Schmidt and Johnny Bench, I thank them.

The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.

I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own.

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

I've been a huge horror fan since I was about eight years old, which is a little bit young to be watching scary movies.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.

To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

The year is dying in the night.

Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .

Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

I've been with 'Days of Our Lives' for 21 years, and I've decided this year is going to be my last year.

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.