30 Years Quotes

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured.

We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

Well, you know, I don't really want to trade next year. I certainly enjoyed having the jacket put on me rather than putting it on.

If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.

I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now the last few years it's gotten more serious.

I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

We have our ambitions [in Dortmund Borussia], and of course I would love to win some titles after some years of finishing second or losing finals.

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

I went to England when I was 13-years=old and then I went again when I was 14. When I went for the second time I felt like the first summer I was there it was a waste because I didn't exist yet.

I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered.

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.

Once I started getting multiple days off in a row, it was a long year for me. That had never happened, and everybody knew I didn't like it.

If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'

If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.

I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.

I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years.

1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.

I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.

Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.