30 Years Quotes

For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam.

We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?

Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise. Here is the essence of north—and it's autumn I've chosen as this year's friend.

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.

My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?

it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

[Working with Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."

I'm not crazy, but it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.

A hundred years from now? All new people.

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds

I spend about a year between novels

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

I had this client I'll call Samuel. Not his real name. I saw him steadily for twenty years, usually twice a month. Over twenty years you really get to know someone.

About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.

Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.

I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Little by little people are understanding that we need to change, but whatever we decide to do in next 10 to 15 years will decide the future of biodiversity on Earth.

Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.