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Quotes About Years

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
~ Edward Carpenter
I tried to change my style a few years ago because people didn't like the over-the-top thing.
~ Rex Hunt
As a running back, when you get the ball year after year - and I would say three years on the short end and seven on the long side - you reach a point where it seems like overnight, your body changes and you can't do what you used to do anymore. We see those drastic declines more at running back than any other position.
~ Cris Carter
I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.
~ Evan Osnos
I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?
~ Tom Ford
Tommy Did you hear I graduated Richard Yeah and just a shade under a decade. All right. Tommy You know a lot of people go to college for seven years. Richard I know, they're called doctors.
~ Unknown
I made a vow to myself, then, that no one would ever control my emotions. I would save love for the children I expected to have and for my animals. I would never allow myself to be made weak by it, never allow anyone to come that close. It was a decision that would cloud my life for many years.
~ Unknown
Back in our silences and sullen looks, for all the Scotch we drink, what's still between us not the thirty or so years, but books, books, books.
~ Tony Harrison
Which would be unfortunate, both because I quite like you, and because then I might have to wait another thousand years to be rescued.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner.
~ Unknown
It's obvious, it's wrong, and anyway they said it years ago.
~ Paul Krugman
the people in this country who feel most like foreigners to each other are English people who've just arrived and the ones who have been here for several years.
~ Paul Scott
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
~ Paul Theroux
around the marshaling yards of the railway where I had embarked all those years ago, when this city had been raucous and sleazy, a frat boy's dream.
~ Paul Theroux
But no, it was not the small single moment which had killed him. It was the anger of all his life here in this house which he himself had built and lived in and hated all his years.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.
~ Frances Hardinge
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
~ Cecil B. DeMille
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.
~ Charles Saatchi
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
~ Jane Haddam
Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
~ Agnes Denes
I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
~ Lynn Collins
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
~ David Hockney
It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.
~ Donnie Yen