Quotes About Years

There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade, ' that I still really love. It's such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it.

Basically, I was booked solid for the entire five years that I was a maiko.

You had many more years," he said. "I didn't want them." "But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future." "What's that?" "Hope.

Her lips are slightly parted: she, whose lips are usually pressed together with the daily disapprovals of the accountants' office where she has worked continually, except for the months of illness, since she was 18, that is to say, for 16 years and some months. Her lips, when she does not speak or eat, are normally pressed together like the ruled line of a balance sheet, marked straight with her old-fashioned lipstick, a final and judjing mouth, a precision instrument.

There is a phrase Argentines use to describe the paradox of wide-eyed knowing and eyes-closed terror that was the dominant state of mind in those years: "We did not know what nobody could deny.

Four years! My heart was glad as birds.

It was final sour proof of something Harvey had suspected for years: Man, he declared, is but a great mischievous baboon.

At the bottom of the human heart there is an ulcer which grows with the years. It is the ulcer of resentment at being exploited by others. Nobody escapes it; it takes time for the soul to locate it and, if and when God wills, to root it out.

H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

Morat ?e pro?i još mnogo godina prije nego što Max zaboravi ljeto kad je otkrio, gotovo sasma slu?ajno, magiju.

He bore that cold and vaguely condescending smile of career servants who, as the years go by, start to believe that their masters' lineage has tinged their own blood blue and granted them the privilege of looking down on others.

Odiar de veras es un talento que se aprende con los años.

Pero los años pasaron en paz. El tiempo pasa más aprisa cuanto más vacío está. Las vidas sin significado pasan de largo como trenes que no paran en tu estación.

Me sonrió con una melancolía que no se merecían sus años

One of the doctors who had worked for him in the castle twenty years ago always said that God takes pity on motherfuckers first.

Odiar de veras es un talento que se aprende con los años. Me

But the years went by in peace. Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.

The night belonged to gaslight, to the shadows of narrow side streets shattered by the flash of gunshots and the blue trace of burned gunpowder. Those were years when one grew up fast, and with childhood slipping out of their hands, many children already had the look of old men.

Years of teaching had left him with that firm and didactic tone of someone used to being heard, but not certain of being listened to.

Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life.

I've done all my schooling at Chennai - it's always home for me. All my growing up years have been spent here, and I have really fond memories associated with the city.