30 Years Quotes

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

I've been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don't overindulge, and you can do all right.

But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.

We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using collage and sound in a digital way. MTV, a couple of years later would be that way.

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.

I love the fact you can walk down a street in London and get lost, even though you've lived here 20 years.

An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution

I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too.

Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light , and then resign it for the grave .

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.

But never in the four hundred years now since I was born, have I ever seen anything to make me doubt whether God exists in some form or the other. Not even the reflection in the mirror.

My heart hasn't beat in almost ninety years but this was different it was like my heart was gone like I was hallow like I'd left everything here with you.

Mandarin is gonna be the language in 15 to 20 years.

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.

Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.

You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

I'm 47, my girlfriend's 33; she's 14 years younger than me: Back of the net!

I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

In this country tonight, PBS shows one of the most talked about tributes of the year.

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.

Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough.

I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet ­understand that it will all go away.

Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.

People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.

The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.

I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.

Bob Bly is among the most accomplished self-employed copywriters in recent years.

A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.