30 Years Quotes

A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.

All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.

I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.

Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in what love might bring, Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.

On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all.

Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.

I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.

It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.

For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.

We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.

I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.

Ive predominantly done comedy over the years.

This is just too awful. Such an amazing talent [like George Michael] gone too soon. Wham was part of the soundtrack to my teenage years.

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

That's what I think when people do their "best stuff" collection. When you start to think, "Oh, I will just present my 10 years of work," that's not a good sign.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.

Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.

Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you

With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

School should be eleven months of the year.

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals.

I had my children after eight years of marriage. It was a dream come true. I still pinch myself.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.