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Quotes About Years

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.
~ Tom Waits
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
~ Richard Linklater
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
~ Jimmy Smits
I am trying to do the best work I possibly can and making movies that will have resonance for years to come. I think if you try for an Oscar or a goal like that, the more people are going to see it as transparent. It's not on my radar. If it happens, great, but I'm happy to continue working as I am, really.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
~ Cicely Tyson
I've been coming to Vegas for so many years working in Vegas, so many years I might as well live here.
~ Lil Jon
I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.
~ Jim Parsons
Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
~ Karen DeCrow
My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.
~ Tom Brady
When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
~ Arthur Henderson
It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.
~ Jacob Young
To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out.
~ Richard Belzer
I didn't start really playing the guitar till I was about seventeen, and I never really had those formative years are where like I was in my room, figuring all that stuff out before I hit the stage. I just did all that on the road all at once, so all those years of playing roadhouses in bars and clubs, I was really figuring it out.
~ Ryan Bingham
Woodcuts have a really timeless sort of feel, and they feel like a book that's a couple hundred years old.
~ Ransom Riggs
I'm 20 years ahead of social times. What does that tell you? That tells you that when I was four that I was thinking the same as the average human on 24.
~ Riff Raff
Mother was engaged briefly to Richard Burton years ago and did a tiny part with him in the film 'Jackpot.'
~ Catherine Oxenberg
In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.
~ J. D. Souther
When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there.
~ Eric Braeden
I went to Florida State for college. Then I went to Oxford in England for a master's degree. I was drafted by the Titans and was with them for two years, and then one year in Pittsburgh with the Steelers.
~ Myron Rolle
If you go to Juventus, you want to go for longer than two years, and you want to win titles.
~ Edwin van der Sar
It's my objective to make sure Schalke are successful again. It's a huge challenge for me to help the club to the Bundesliga title again after years without winning any titles.
~ Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Can we build a system which is able to survive on the ocean for years? That is the key question we are trying to answer here with the North Sea prototype.
~ Boyan Slat
I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.
~ Alan Moore