30 Years Quotes

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.

At the beginning, I didn't see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, "Okay, I'll do it for the money for a few years to help my mom and my sisters."

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

All New Years is to me is for taking down your dumb Christmas decorations. People who put up Christmas decorations, all they're saying is, 'Hey, we're not Jews.'

The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.

We don't actually plan to launch new businesses over the next few years, but we are planning to take the ones we have into new territories.

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

I moved into a nice houseboat in Little Venice when I was 15 years old. I found a girlfriend called Monday and a houseboat called Friday, so I had the week sewn up.

I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.

I myself have invested in Uber and Hailo, I think they offer great alternatives to disrupt markets that have remained unchanged for many years.

I have learnt so much over my 40 years of business which would have been valuable to me when I was younger.

It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news.

Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them.

I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it.

We drilled in the right place - we were simply 30 million years too late

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

Out of many shared years. One life.

In fact, among the 1000 titles which I have recorded in the past 35 years, there are less than 10% of classical titles.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.

We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China.

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.

Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

What's perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we're basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It's something that kind of folds in on itself.

I can't function without coffee and I cannot refuse chocolate. Drink I gave up years ago and don't miss it in the slightest. But I think I'd collapse without coffee.

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy.

I appreciate CD's, but I've been digital for 10 years.

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.