30 Years Quotes

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

One should mature over 20 years.

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.

It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.

She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like.

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will ultimately become a very large collection of turds.

Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.

I really didn't go that hard, although a couple of years I did. Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. they're just goin' all the time.

I have a '68 Mustang, which is my baby. I've had her for about six years, which is kind of a miracle, considering how many times she's been stolen.

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.