30 Years Quotes

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.

Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.

We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.

I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.

The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.'

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.