30 Years Quotes

I modeled for 4 years before I felt like I had my big break.

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, "Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.

I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the "A-Team" van or something.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour. If she keeps working, keeps doing the right things, there's no reason why she shouldn't be out here.

Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. #‎ RIP6MIX

Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy.

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

I hope that people like us next year like they liked us last year.

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

When years from now people look back on today, they will think the same thing they already do but with more reasons for it.

Like if you're Jewish you have to wear a hat, but only in the middle of your head. But it all becomes clear the second that you realize that God is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.

I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.

There are always fights in a band. People get together for these reunion shows after 20 years, and they play a couple shows and break up again.

It is so sad how hatred is a seed we planted in the hearts of kids. We are going to be working for years and years to try and fix this.

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.