30 Years Quotes

Just last year I couldn't even get a date, and then this year… it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.

The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.

Business and leadership is about the future. What worked five years ago is unlikely to work tomorrow.

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.

I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.

Sometimes those who bloom too early fade fast. Michael Kors struggled for years - and endured bankruptcy - before he became all rich and famous and fabulous.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

I love Seattle, but I am definitely excited to be in a new place. Growing up there and then living in an apartment in the city for seven years, I just felt stagnant.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

Don't live the same year seventy-five times and call it a life.

It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation.

As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life.

As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.

I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.

And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years.

The secret is to moisturize the face. I've been doing that since I was 17 years old. (on looking young)

In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.

My parents were sixty years married.

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

I made a few movies in Holland for a lot of TV series. I came to Los Angeles and for the last 10 years, I made a lot of feature films - all kinds of low budget action movies for the studios.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

I've done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There's always another interview to do. It's quite something, I have to say.

I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly.

I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away again.

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.

Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

I don't drive an Escalade; I've never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.

In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team.