30 Years Quotes

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one wrist.

A few years ago, maybe it was more strange to be outside of the centers of fashion. Now, with the Internet and traveling that you can do, I think I'm more central than some people in Paris.

Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.

If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).

Make 2012 the year that you were nice.. because people don't like not nice people.. so be nice.. all the time!

I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

I've been a poser for f--ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Once a year go someplace you've never been.

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.

I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.