300 Quotes on Years

• I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.

  Author: Chuck Zito

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Roy Wood

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

  Author: Thomas Wolfe

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

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

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

  Author: Walter Williams

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

  Author: Robin 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

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

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

  Author: James Watson

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

  Author: Denzel Washington

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

  Author: Sela 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 hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

  Author: Joseph Wambaugh

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

  Author: Rick Wakeman

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

  Author: Vinnie Vincent

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

  Author: Gwen Verdon

• About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

  Author: Paul Valery

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back.

  Author: Tina Turner

• I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

  Author: Harriet Tubman

• This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

  Author: Harry Truman

• It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.

  Author: Bess Truman

• I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

  Author: Patrick Troughton

• I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

  Author: Lee Trevino

• Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

  Author: Lee Trevino

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

  Author: Carrot Top

• In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

  Author: James Thurber

• Did I think it would last 30 years? No, I didn't think it would have those kind of legs.

  Author: George Thorogood

• And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• I can't think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven't played in this league.

  Author: Isaiah Thomas

• Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

  Author: Sachin Tendulkar

• The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

  Author: Lawrence Taylor

• Thirteen years I took on this last book.

  Author: Gay Talese

• After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

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

  Author: Hilary Swank

• After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone.

  Author: Sarah Sutton

• I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

  Author: John Stossel

• I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

  Author: Sting

• I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.

  Author: Jerry Stiller

• I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.

  Author: Martha Stewart

• The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

  Author: George Stephen

• Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

  Author: Stendhal

• Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

  Author: Leigh Steinberg

• I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

  Author: Terence Stamp

• I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

  Author: Robert Stack

• I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

  Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

• This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

  Author: L. Smith

• We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

  Author: Jaclyn Smith

• It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

  Author: Elliott Smith

• I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

  Author: Bryan Singer

• I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

  Author: William Sherman

• I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  Author: Ted Shackelford

• I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.

  Author: Luke Scott

• We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.

  Author: Izabella Scorupco

• I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.

  Author: Julius Schwartz

• The best years are behind me.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• I've been with the paper for almost 30 years.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

  Author: Dick Schaap

• It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

  Author: William Sanderson

• I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

  Author: Larry Sabato

• I never knew that I'd still be doing this so many years later.

  Author: David Ruffin

• The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

  Author: Jean Rousseau

• I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

  Author: Mickey Rooney

• I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

  Author: Al Roker

• It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

  Author: Jim Rogers

• Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians.

  Author: Eric Roberts

• Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

  Author: Sally Ride

• I've been in the game for 30 years and I came to represent.

  Author: Slick Rick

• To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

  Author: Buddy Rich

• There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

  Author: Buddy Rich

• You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.

  Author: Burt Reynolds

• Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive.

  Author: Paul Reubens

• I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

  Author: Lynn Redgrave

• I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually.

  Author: Mick Ralphs

• We've been together 32 years and married for 27.

  Author: Sally Quinn

• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  Author: Victoria Principal

• I was a gymnast for years.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

  Author: John Prescott

• I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.

  Author: Victoria Pratt

• I know I cannot do all the stuff that I did ten years ago.

  Author: Rajendra Prasad

• Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.

  Author: John Pople

• In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher.

  Author: Nelson Piquet

• I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

  Author: Jimmy Piersall

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

  Author: William Petersen

• If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years.

  Author: George Peppard

• This year, I feel strong. I'm looking forward to having my best season in the last few years.

  Author: Chan Park

• The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.

  Author: Sister Parish

• My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

  Author: Carre Otis

• I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

  Author: Charles Olson

• Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

  Author: Merlin Olsen

• Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.

  Author: Albert Nock

• What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

  Author: Ben Nicholson

• I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

  Author: Marc Newson

• I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

  Author: Graham Nash

• The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

  Author: Brian Mulroney

• There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

  Author: Ennio Morricone

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  Author: Pat Morita

• I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

  Author: Mary Moore

• The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years.

  Author: Charles Moore

• I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore.

  Author: Art Modell

• Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse.

  Author: Robert Mitchum

• For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

  Author: Spike Milligan

• I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

  Author: George Michael

• Don't just count your years, make your years count.

  Author: George Meredith

• There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

  Author: Mignon McLaughlin

• They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.

  Author: Michael McKean

• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  Author: Barry McGuire

• I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

  Author: Brownie McGhee

• I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.

  Author: Eric McCormack

• We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore.

  Author: Rue McClanahan

• It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

  Author: Andrew McCarthy

• For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

  Author: Joyce Maynard

• Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six years.

  Author: John Mayall

• For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

  Author: Paul Martin

• I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.

  Author: Ziggy Marley

• I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

  Author: Herbie Mann

• All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

  Author: Joseph Mankiewicz

• I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

  Author: Chuck Mangione

• I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

  Author: John Malkovich

• I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

  Author: Hermann Maier

• Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

  Author: Hermann Maier

• For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

  Author: James MacArthur

• I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

  Author: Rob Lowe

• The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.

  Author: Courtney Love

• We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.

  Author: Courtney Love

• When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.

  Author: Bobby Locke

• Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

  Author: Arthur Levitt

• It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.

  Author: James Levine

• Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

  Author: Jim Lehrer

• I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower.

  Author: Gypsy Lee

• If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

  Author: Joshua Lederberg

• If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

  Author: Joshua Lederberg

• Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

  Author: Richard Leakey

• At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

  Author: Louis Leakey

• Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.

  Author: Martin Landau

• After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.

  Author: Guy Lafleur

• I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

  Author: Patti LaBelle

• We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.

  Author: John Kricfalusi

• For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

  Author: Lenny Kravitz

• It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.

  Author: Diana Krall

• I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

  Author: Sandy Koufax

• You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

  Author: Alan King

• I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.

  Author: Persis Khambatta

• The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

  Author: Felicity Kendal

• They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.

  Author: Moira Kelly

• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

  Author: Helen Keller

• Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

  Author: John Keegan

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Author: Garry Kasparov

• Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years.

  Author: Casey Kasem

• Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

  Author: Lawrence Kasdan

• My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

  Author: Alex Karras

• The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

  Author: Robert Kaplan

• I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

  Author: Bob Kane

• It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

  Author: Wynonna Judd

• I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.

  Author: Ashley Judd

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

  Author: Jon Jovi

• I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

  Author: Neil Jordan

• I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

  Author: Star Jones

• I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.

  Author: Marion Jones

• Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.

  Author: Robert Jackson

• When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

  Author: Reggie Jackson

• I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

  Author: Neil Innes

• Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.

  Author: John Hull

• In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

  Author: Jane Hull

• I've been number two in films for donkey's years.

  Author: Trevor Howard

• I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

  Author: Anthony Hopkins

• I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

  Author: Robyn Hitchcock

• I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

  Author: Martina Hingis

• Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

  Author: Walter Hill

• The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

  Author: Wolfgang Hildesheimer

• I didn't make a 147 until few years ago - I just wasn't the sort of player who went for them. But it's like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow.

  Author: John Higgins

• About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

  Author: Dan Hicks

• I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

  Author: Jack Herer

• I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

  Author: Patricia Heaton

• Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons of evidence that's been available for years.

  Author: Patty Hearst

• If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

  Author: John Havlicek

• Sabrina ran for seven years with a different director every week.

  Author: Melissa Hart

• Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

  Author: Mary Hart

• If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger.

  Author: Mariska Hargitay

• The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

  Author: James Hansen

• It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

  Author: Ruth Handler

• I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.

  Author: Larry Hagman

• I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.

  Author: Sammy Hagar

• I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

  Author: Thom Gunn

• You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

  Author: Alma Guillermoprieto

• I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

  Author: Pam Grier

• I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years.

  Author: Adrian Grenier

• Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

  Author: Colin Greenwood

• I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me.

  Author: Eva Green

• For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

  Author: Lou Gramm

• I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.

  Author: Richard Gough

• I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years.

  Author: Martin Gore

• I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

  Author: Terry Goodkind

• I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

  Author: Samuel Goldwyn

• I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

  Author: Jerry Goldsmith

• The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

  Author: William Godwin

• You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

  Author: Fay Godwin

• Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

  Author: David Gill

• Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.

  Author: Michael Giles

• But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

  Author: Balthazar Getty

• I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

  Author: Boy George

• Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

  Author: Art Garfunkel

• I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

  Author: Louis Freeh

• The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

  Author: Jeff Foxworthy

• I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.

  Author: John Foster

• Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

  Author: Lukas Foss

• Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

  Author: Tennessee Ford

• I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

  Author: Harrison Ford

• I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

  Author: Henry Fonda

• I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

  Author: Roger Federer

• I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

  Author: Paul Farmer

• Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

  Author: Arthur Erickson

• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

  Author: Dennis Eckersley

• Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

  Author: Christopher Eccleston

• It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

  Author: Clea Duvall

• Years are not important, my dear.

  Author: Faye Dunaway

• When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years.

  Author: Julia Dreyfus

• I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

  Author: Frederick Douglass

• I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

  Author: Placido Domingo

• I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

  Author: Phyllis Diller

• Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

  Author: Norm Dicks

• Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

  Author: Bruce Dickinson

• It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

  Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

• The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.

  Author: Caroline Dhavernas

• We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

  Author: Paul Desmond

• This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience.

  Author: James Denton

• The two championship years were that significant for me.

  Author: Chuck Daly

• I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.

  Author: Jamie Curtis

• I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.

  Author: Kenny Cunningham

• I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

  Author: Imogen Cunningham

• You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

  Author: Burton Cummings

• I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

  Author: David Cross

• Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

  Author: Steve Cropper

• Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

  Author: Steve Cropper

• I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

  Author: Wayne Coyne

• I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

  Author: Courteney Cox

• The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

  Author: Piers Corbyn

• Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

  Author: Piers Corbyn

• After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.

  Author: Kenneth Cooper

• Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.

  Author: Kenneth Cooper

• You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

  Author: Jimmy Connors

• I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle.

  Author: Stephen Collins

• I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

  Author: Judy Collins

• Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

  Author: Jim Coleman

• It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

  Author: Claudette Colbert

• Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.

  Author: Joe Cocker

• The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

  Author: Brian Clough

• I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

  Author: Kate Clinton

• Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

  Author: Julian Clary

• The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

  Author: Caryl Chessman

• I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

  Author: Gary Cherone

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  Author: Dan Castellaneta

• I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

  Author: Steve Case

• So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

  Author: Steve Case

• I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back.

  Author: David Carradine

• We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

  Author: Leslie Caron

• I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.

  Author: Robert Caro

• He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

  Author: Truman Capote

• I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come.

  Author: Max Cannon

• I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.

  Author: Columba Bush

• I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

  Author: Steve Buscemi

• The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

  Author: Thomas Bulfinch

• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  Author: Warren Buffett

• And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

  Author: Jimmy Buffett

• Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.

  Author: Lindsey Buckingham

• Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

  Author: Gavin Bryars

• We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

  Author: Sherrod Brown

• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

  Author: Van Brooks

• I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

  Author: Richard Brautigan

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