30 Years Quotes

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.

In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.

Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.

If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.

What is Aldous capable of?" "Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything." "Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?" "So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.

Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in one place can come to seem a dull prison after many, many years.

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

I just really want to be able to walk into a karaoke bar when I'm like 50 years old, do my own song, and then walk out. I think that would be really fun.

To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!

If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.

Years from now I'll look back and remember today as the day I met him. I'll look back and remember the exact moment my life began to include him. I will remember it forever.

I've always wanted to produce. I've had my production company name for years, even though I didn't really do anything with it right away.

And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

I live on the water and I have jet skis. Skiing is my biggest thing, I've been skiing since I was five-years-old.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

This year, I feel strong. I'm looking forward to having my best season in the last few years.

I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like "It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years, so I was like "OK, I'll just be a lawyer."

I had spent over 10 years in sports, and there's such a natural crossover between entertainment and sports. It's more common to have both of those in your arsenal.

My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.

It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.

A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn’t have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.

we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.

"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground."

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You get the idea.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget

The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I've seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.