30 Years Quotes

It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.

It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.

I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record".

When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.

And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

I thought I had mono for a year...Turns out I was just really bored.

I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.

I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.

When I was 9 years old, Star Trek came on.

Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).

We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go from one end of the house to the other, I would pass the piano and play a few notes.

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.

You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

Some things are better than other things: Google, Gmail, my vintage Montgomery Wards socket set (30+ years, still going strong), my Estwing framing hammer, and my Dremel rotary tool.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.