30 Years Quotes

It's easy to be a one-hit wonder. It's hard to stay relevant for more than a few years.

My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?

At the millennium we partied like it was 1999. And then we had a 10 year bathtub tequila hangover, man. Just hugging the metaphorical toilet on a daily basis.

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.

In any year, the stats in Iowa show we are in a relatively safe location, but that can change dramatically; a lot of it depends on what travels through our campus.

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

[Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote.

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

Every couple years when Mr. [Hugh] Hefner would call, I would very graciously decline, because my mom would kill me, and I thought it was more mysterious keeping my clothes on.

Nine million Americans a year, that we know of, struggle with infertility.

I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.

I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.

Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

Mitch McConnell is a professional arm twister. He's done this for many years. He has a lot of power in his caucus.

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

It takes years to readjust dynamics and relationships, and to overnight create the new dynamic, I was surprised by how challenging that was for me personally.

My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.

The Rays are a team to be reckoned with. These guys are getting better and better each year.

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.

Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.

Hopefully I don't have to play for eight years but can go and relax somewhere and do something enjoyable while I'm still young.

How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection. (on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season)

I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

I've had job stability for years at a time. You really develop great relationships with the people you work with.