30 Years Quotes

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.

I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do. I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years . . . and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

I'm from Minnesota! I used to work Knuckleheads at the Mall of America as a stand-up. I spent New Year's there once. I'm not trying to namedrop.

The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.

Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling.

Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

I've been doing Porky Pig for 21 years for Warner Brothers.

I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.

Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.

I've been a fan of Kenny Bob's for almost 20 years, and he's always made me laugh, and laugh hard! He is just, flat-out, a great entertainer!

You have to face reality, and coming off 4-12, you're not going to be the national draw you were previously. But for 13 years, we were a pretty good draw.

Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless.

I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.

If I had to just play 200 shows a year with the same set, there'd be a gun. In my mouth. With bullets in it.

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from 'Mr. Belvedere,' too. We stay in touch.

I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.

When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.

What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.

We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.

In a year's time, he's a year older.

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.

Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.