30 Years Quotes

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?

I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.

The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,.

No two situations are identical, but with years of experience you can usually find a comparison to something you did before, which shortens the process of deciding how to approach a job.

I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.

Jews have been circumcising their boys for thousands of years, and suddenly we are accused of tormenting our children.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.

A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

In a statement to the Associated Press earlier in the year, Jamie Lynn said she didn’t have a boyfriend. She said, ‘I’m keeping my options open.’ And by options, she meant legs.

David Hasselhoff was hospitalized after falling off the wagon again. He probably got used to drinking too much, because for years he never had to worry about driving anywhere - his car drove itself.

Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.

Having a baby, it's like a five year commitment.

I've never made love to a ghost but I have made love to men who are a few years away from becoming a ghost.

I had an abortion when I was 16. Because that's what I should have done. Otherwise I would now have a 20-year-old kid. Anyway, those are things that people shouldn't be dishonest about it.

The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans friends and confidantes. I think I need to come up with a code name for this circle.

I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

To me marriage is for five or ten years

I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally.

I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

My music tastes are often 20 years behind.

I get to wear Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen and crazy stuff, but of course, my mom would never in a million years let me buy that. She won't even let me buy my own pair of skis!

I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.

I never expected to leave college early-especially after just one year.

In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight years.

I've said consistently, the advice I give to Donald is to Donald [Trump]. And that's based upon our friendship over the last 14 years and the way I would expect to.

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

There’s a lot of pressure playing something that existed for so many years before you were involved, and already has a fan base. I approached it by doing it as well as I can.