30 Years Quotes

I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.

Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.

Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he'd get back to me next year.

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.

It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.

Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.

There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred.

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

This is a great position to be in. I don't really believe there is any fighter, in any decade that can be in my position of luxury that I've been in for many years.

What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.

I've never told anybody this, so I don't know if maybe you shouldn't print it, but I've made plans. I'm only going to continue doing this for another 25 years.

I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.

When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.

I have been in the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for over 24 years.

The best thing about the New Year is your 4.90 ERA disappears and starts back at zero.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.

I still stay in touch with Elinor Donahue. I've known Elinor since she was 14-years-old.

I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance veterinary medicine for animals worldwide.

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.

I never had a Christmass at home for about 10 years.

I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.