30 Years Quotes

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key issues that matter to them to cast their vote.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.

I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.

If they [Guns N' Roses] didn't get back together soon they would have missed their window and no one would have cared in 3 or 4 years.

Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.

I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

You could never in a million years have told me Prince would not be here today.

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

There are people who have been in this job for 20 years who will tell you that something new crops up every day. (on being Manchester City manager)

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.

I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments

todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Eddie sees the big picture. He's clearly got a vision of how to make this thing the big event. And he never stops working. The minute [the tournament] is completed, he'll be thinking about next year.

I date guys who are five, 10, 15 years older than I am.

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.

When I was eight years old, I knew I wanted to make films.

For years when we went into companies to discuss how we could help their leaders be most effective, we heard people say, "Our leaders need to develop executive presence."

When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.

The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.