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Quotes About Years

Trust was like mould. It accumulated over time in unattended places... Over the years, Makepeace had become encrusted with other people's inattentive trust.
~ Frances Hardinge
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
~ Billy Corgan
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
~ Billy Corgan
I'll sing you a ditty that needs no apology-- Attend, and keep watch in the gates of your ears!-- Of the famous new science which men call Geology, And gods call the story of millions of years.
~ blackie john stuart ii
Childhood and the teen years are periods where diversity leads to discovery and, in the process, teaches. If that process is denied, we learn less and the stranglehold of ignorance breeds suspicion.
~ blackmun harry ii
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
~ Blaise Pascal
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.
~ Bob Geldof
I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
~ Bob Graham
In that turbulent time, the happenstance First Lady, Betty Ford, was certain of one thing: she would not change. 'I've spent too many years as me,' she declared. 'I can't suddenly turn into a princess.
~ Bonnie Angelo
All of man's faculties are to be brought to completeness. For that purpose all the years of time and the aeons of eternity are God's and ours.
~ boyd thomas parker ii
Nice place," I said. "Ain't it just the maddest? It's a little rough diamond to remind me of the better times. So, now who the hell are you?" I introduced myself and asked him if he recalled a fatal car accident from ten years ago. I mentioned Terese Collins. He interrupted me midway through.
~ Harlan Coben
I was exhilarated. So many things had happened so fast I felt it would take years to sort them out
~ Harper Lee
Via Joseph Campbell: My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say, The best things can't be told, because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood, because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about, and one gets stuck in the thoughts.The third best are what we talk about.
~ Heinrich Zimmer
I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.
~ Helen Fielding
I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.
~ Helen Fielding
I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.
~ Mel Gibson
When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.
~ James Lipton
In all the years with WWE, I never really got to really establish the branding of The Showstopper as well as I would have liked to.
~ Shawn Michaels
My years in the WWE, a lot of stuff came out that you're not even aware of because they come out with it so fast, and there's so much of it. It's tough, certainly, to have any hands-on association with it, so I was happy to be able to have some input into the 'Deuce Brand' watch.
~ Shawn Michaels
I'd been wanting to try a YA novel for years because I saw how exciting the genre was and how amazing, hungry, and curious the readers were.
~ Jeff Giles
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
~ Mickey Mantle
I want to do stories that are about the bits of cultural furniture that are sitting there that we're like, 'Oh yeah, that's been there for years! What could possibly be weird about it?' And then we're going to lift that piece of furniture and look at all the bugs scurry away.
~ Adam Conover
Yeah, I was a local hero. It was great for me, 'cos I had a full house every night all night seven nights a week for five years that I played. The next five years I just played five days a week, but I still had a full house every night.
~ John Hunter
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
~ James Lovelock