300 Quotes on Years

• Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

  Author: Fritz Zwicky

• You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.

  Author: David Zucker

• For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

  Author: John Zorn

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.

  Author: Chuck Zito

• I thank the Almighty for the most wonderful 18 years. Far, far, too short a time.

  Author: John Zimmerman

• I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

  Author: Zinedine Zidane

• So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

  Author: Warren Zevon

• It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

  Author: Warren Zevon

• Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

  Author: Warren Zevon

• Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

  Author: Mao Zedong

• If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

  Author: Emil Zatopek

• I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years.

  Author: Rick Yune

• I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

  Author: Rick Yune

• My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that.

  Author: Robin Yount

• You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

  Author: Robin Yount

• And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years.

  Author: Robin Yount

• I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

  Author: Neil Young

• I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

  Author: Neil Young

• I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

  Author: James Young

• 30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

  Author: Gig Young

• I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

  Author: Coleman Young

• I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.

  Author: Burt Young

• Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

  Author: Zhang Yimou

• But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

  Author: Tim Yeo

• For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

  Author: Donnie Yen

• We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

  Author: William Yeats

• I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

  Author: Chen Yang

• The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

  Author: Kristi Yamaguchi

• I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

  Author: Ed Wynn

• It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

  Author: Albert Wynn

• I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

  Author: Bill Wyman

• In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

  Author: Elinor Wylie

• My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

  Author: Wilbur Wright

• I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

  Author: Steven Wright

• Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

  Author: Orville Wright

• With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

  Author: Orville Wright

• You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.

  Author: Max Wright

• The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

  Author: Frank Wright

• There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

  Author: Tom Wopat

• As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

  Author: James Woolsey

• Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years.

  Author: Leonard Woodcock

• After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

  Author: Roy Wood

• I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. Bullets Over Broadway is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.

  Author: Lee Womack

• And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.

  Author: Lee Womack

• I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

  Author: Bobby Womack

• So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

  Author: Thomas Wolfe

• We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

  Author: John Wise

• My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

  Author: John Wise

• Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

  Author: Isaac Wise

• Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

  Author: Johnny Winter

• We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

  Author: Edgar Winter

• After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

  Author: Alex Winter

• The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.

  Author: Tom Winnifrith

• I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

  Author: Kip Winger

• Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

  Author: Kip Winger

• I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

  Author: Debra Winger

• And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

  Author: Terri Windling

• In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

  Author: Terri Windling

• I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.

  Author: Paul Winchell

• I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• To think that we as a publisher (i.e. people who have never actually MADE a game) can have a realistic impact on a project that a team of experts is slaving away on full time for 2 years is a bit arrogant.

  Author: Mike Wilson

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  Author: E. Wilson

• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  Author: E. Wilson

• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  Author: E. Wilson

• Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.

  Author: Bridgette Wilson

• I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

  Author: Ann Wilson

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her.

  Author: Kevin Williamson

• The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

  Author: Walter Williams

• I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.

  Author: Tony Williams

• We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

  Author: Robin Williams

• Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.

  Author: Montel Williams

• We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don't see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn't need a draft.

  Author: Montel Williams

• It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former.

  Author: Montel Williams

• I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

  Author: Kit Williams

• The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

  Author: Kit Williams

• I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

  Author: John Williams

• I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

  Author: Esther Williams

• There are a lot of people who waited a lot of years to become citizens. These people just walked across the border.

  Author: Alvin Williams

• Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

  Author: Fred Willard

• Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• 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.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

  Author: Kim Wilde

• With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

  Author: Ella Wilcox

• What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

  Author: Simon Wiesenthal

• Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  Author: Walt Whitman

• I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

  Author: Margaret Whiting

• Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

  Author: Paul Whiteman

• Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

  Author: Mary Whitehouse

• My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

  Author: Ryan White

• I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

  Author: Ryan White

• There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

  Author: Ron White

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  Author: Patrick White

• Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

  Author: Meg White

• After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

  Author: Mark White

• The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

  Author: E. White

• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  Author: Forest Whitaker

• As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

  Author: Forest Whitaker

• I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

  Author: Lisa Whelchel

• I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

  Author: Kim Weston

• My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.

  Author: Donald Westlake

• I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.

  Author: Randy West

• A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

  Author: Allen West

• My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  Author: Ida Wells

• 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.

  Author: H. Wells

• By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

  Author: Robert Welch

• We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

  Author: Jack Welch

• These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that.

  Author: Brian Welch

• Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years.

  Author: Johnny Weissmuller

• For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

  Author: Len Wein

• I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

  Author: Gene Ween

• A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

  Author: Gene Ween

• We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.

  Author: Chris Wedge

• As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

  Author: Chris Webber

• Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  Author: Jackie Weaver

• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

  Author: Jackie Weaver

• Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

  Author: Henry Waxman

• I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

  Author: Ruby Wax

• I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

  Author: Steve Waugh

• It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

  Author: Naomi Watts

• Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

  Author: James Watson

• I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

  Author: James Watson

• Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

  Author: Muddy Waters

• This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

  Author: Maxine Waters

• After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

  Author: Denzel Washington

• The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

  Author: Dionne Warwick

• During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

  Author: Rick Warren

• Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

  Author: Mark Warner

• The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.

  Author: Shane Warne

• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

  Author: Chris Ware

• Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

  Author: Chris Ware

• As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.

  Author: Sela Ward

• As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

  Author: Mary Ward

• For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.

  Author: Mary Ward

• So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

  Author: Mary Ward

• I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.

  Author: Burt Ward

• All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

  Author: Vera Wang

• Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

  Author: Vera Wang

• It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.

  Author: Vera Wang

• For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

  Author: Joseph Wambaugh

• I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

  Author: Joseph Wambaugh

• If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

  Author: Joseph Wambaugh

• It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

  Author: Rob Walton

• We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.

  Author: John Walters

• It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

  Author: John Walters

• In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.

  Author: John Walters

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

  Author: M. Walsh

• Personally, in my home, the district in central New York, the Air National Guard base, not 5 years ago, the commandant came through and said, This is one of the sorriest looking bases I have ever seen.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

  Author: Robert Walpole

• A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• My father was gone when I was three years old.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  Author: George Wallace

• Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.

  Author: Murray Walker

• No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

  Author: Rick Wakeman

• In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

  Author: David Wain

• If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

  Author: Lindsay Wagner

• In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

  Author: Honus Wagner

• I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.

  Author: George Voinovich

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  Author: A. Vogt

• I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  Author: A. Vogt

• I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

  Author: A. Vogt

• I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• 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.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

  Author: Richard Virenque

• My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.

  Author: Richard Virenque

• I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!

  Author: Vinnie Vincent

• At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.

  Author: Herve Villechaize

• Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

  Author: William Vickrey

• But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

  Author: Linda Vester

• It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.

  Author: Sofia Vergara

• Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

  Author: Ben Vereen

• I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.

  Author: Gwen Verdon

• I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.

  Author: Gwen Verdon

• I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• 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.

  Author: Wietse Venema

• Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

  Author: Conrad Veidt

• I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

  Author: Alan Vega

• Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

  Author: Alan Vega

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