30 Years Quotes

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.

It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years.

For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.

If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

For once I've met somebody, the years cannot erase... The memory of a pleasant word or of a friendly face...

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

No Botox. I don't think I will go there. I don't want to say never, because who knows? Maybe in 10 years I will.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride to raise money for Great Ormond Street seemed like the next big challenge.

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

Pope Francis announced that next year he is coming to the United States, or as Fox News is reporting it, 'Obama lets in yet another guy from South America.'

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

This is the best club in the world with the best fans, so I'm very proud to be a Liverpool player for the next four years and hopefully even longer.

I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.