30 Years Quotes

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.

Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.

Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'

I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

Omygod, I haven’t got years. I’ll have to hide in the Bat Cave.” “Once you go to the Bat Cave it’s forever, babe.” Eeek.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.

My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.

I got into music because my Dad used to tell everyone I had the voice of an angel when I was two-years-old.

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process.

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

I do six or seven films a year in order to sustain my lifestyle.

I have a lot of respect for the Concord Coalition and have done work with them over the years.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

I'm a big fan of the game. Seeing these young guys play at the level that they are, I just wish I was 22, 23 years old so I can handle the game the way they do.

I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season, I think we have good chance to go all the way.

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.

Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.

I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it.

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

You know what? I look forward to the Battle of Alberta for the next X number of years. If the idea is, 'Burn it to the ground,' then Ken can find another manager to do it.

Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook.

They had so much rain in New York that a lot of the cabbies had their first shower in years.

Martha Stewart was found guilty on all charges. You know what that means, stripes are in this year.

A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.