30 Years Quotes

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.

I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.

Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?

I watched you for years,” she whispered. The tears were drying on her cheeks, and heat was building within her. If he would just touch her. Touch her there. “I watched you and you never saw me.

It took me six years to be comfortable modeling a swimsuit.

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

I worked in fashion for ten years, and like anyone in the fashion industry, even if you leave, you never leave fashion behind.

But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

For 15 years, I've been playing the same character - which is myself - and I'm bored with 'myself'.

I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.

I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.

My dog of 17 years just died. Oh you're kidding?... Noooo... as funny as that is, I'm not

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

In Liberia, our salary scales are so low that our judicial system has become corrupt over the years. Now, we need to do some things ourselves.

Just because he has black fingernails doesn't mean he's a monster-that's how you've defended yourself for years.

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Many of my staff have been with me for over 20 years. I have a great team, and I make sure they feel respected and appreciated.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.

If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

I've been a vegan for about 15 years.

My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around.

I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.

After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.

I'm aware of how difficult it is to work and be a mom - I have an 11-year-old son - and I would love to help anyone else who is trying to get into the field.

It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.

Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.

Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.

I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.