Years Quotes

At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.

~ Leslie Odom

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'

~ Anton Corbijn

I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer.

~ Kitty Kelley

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.

~ Brin-Jonathan Butler

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

~ Renée Fleming

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

~ Coretta Scott King

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

~ George Meredith

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

~ Patti Davis

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

~ Isla Fisher

Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.

~ Chip Conley

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

~ Thayer David

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

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

~ Rob Zombie

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

~ Will Rogers

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

~ Jackie Chan

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.

~ Channing Tatum

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

~ Kirk Hammett

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.

~ Matt Reeves

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

~ Jonathan Ive

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

~ Anthony Holden

Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.

~ Dennis Prager

My first marriage ended after 24 years.

~ Jerry Della Femina

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

~ Azim Premji

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

~ Victoria Moran

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

~ James Herriot

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

~ Paul Lynde

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

~ Al Gore

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

~ Meg Greenfield

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

~ Lauren Conrad

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

~ Harvey Weinstein

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

~ Max Muller

It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.

~ Martin Rees

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

~ Caitlin Moran

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

~ Eric Holder

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

~ Tamra Davis

Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.

~ Rory Mcilroy

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

~ Mary Hart

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

~ Niels Bohr