30 Years Quotes

I realized that when two people function well together at work, it doesn't matter if they hadn't seen each other for years. What they had before was still intact.

Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow

The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

I don't look so much for tips. But when they interview a Nicklaus or a Palmer, I'm all ears. I listen to guys who have done it, been successful for years.

There should be more of an off-season in the game. I think you need to have less tournaments, more of a break at the end of the year so guys can recover.

When you struggle winning matches all year and you don't really get into a groove or rhythm, you just can't expect to just come in here and have it click.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear in the morning.

The best years are when you know what you're doing.

You get to live your life again through the eyes of your children. I conquered a fear the other day by going on a roller coaster, I haven't been on one in 15 years - I felt like I was six years old.

Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty-years-old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates' greatest scourge, not just in English waters but throughout the world.

I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.

You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project.

I drove a taxi at night during my last year at BU and then for another 18 months after graduating in order to buy cameras and pay the rent while I tried to figure out for myself how to freelance.

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

I've spent so many years living in one place and imaging another.

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

I agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.

I grew up Greenville. And I moved to Raleigh some years later.

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!