Years Quotes

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

~ Alan Arkin

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

~ Gloria Swanson

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

~ Sue Townsend

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

~ Zane Grey

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

~ Don Willett

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

~ Nancy Jo Sales

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

~ Cher

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

~ Don Delillo

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

~ Wendell Willkie

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

~ Hidetoshi Nakata

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.

~ Peter O'toole

I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

~ Gary Vaynerchuk

I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'

~ John Madden

I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.

~ Alex Morgan

I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.

~ Jerry Reinsdorf

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

~ Joe Rogan

I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.

~ Martina Navratilova

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

~ Stephen Hawking

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

~ Buzz Aldrin

I've always been a bit of a space geek. I wrote an article years ago about the neutral buoyancy tank, which is this biblically sized pool where they train astronauts. And it was just the coolest thing.

~ Mary Roach

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

~ Placido Domingo

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

~ Jared Leto

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

~ Kevin Mitnick

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

~ Greg Egan

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

~ Chris Van Allsburg

When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

~ Zach Anner

I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.

~ Brian Posehn

I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

~ Padgett Powell

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

~ Mike Shinoda

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

~ Suzy Bogguss

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.

~ Linda Sue Park

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

~ Douglas Wilson

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

~ Sandra Tsing Loh

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

~ Dana Carvey

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

~ Kylie Minogue

Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.

~ Doug Harvey

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

~ Al Gore

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

~ Jared Diamond

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

~ Amartya Sen

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

~ Alan Alda