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Image of Mark Strong
I've put my friends and family through the wringer over the years, I have to say, by doing unspeakable things to people, not the least of which was pulling out poor George Clooney's fingernails in Syriana.
- Mark Strong
Collection: Years
Image of Pentti Linkola
Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.
- Pentti Linkola
Collection: Years
Image of Sharon Van Etten
I did jazz dance for a few years.
- Sharon Van Etten
Collection: Years
Image of Steve Yzerman
As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.
- Steve Yzerman
Collection: Years
Image of Bill McKibben
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon. To be specific, buy 50 feet of clothesline and a $3 bag of clothespins and become a solar energy pioneer.
- Bill McKibben
Collection: Years
Image of Terri Windling
I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
- Terri Windling
Collection: Years
Image of Jackie French
I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.
- Jackie French
Collection: Years
Image of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Our entire judicial system in Liberia has broken down because of the many years of lawlessness, indiscipline and warfare. We need more training to get more qualified judges. We need infrastructural reforms. All of our laws need to be re-examined by a law reform commission.
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Collection: Years
Image of Andrew O'Hagan
Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.
- Andrew O'Hagan
Collection: Years
Image of Lars Ulrich
People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.
- Lars Ulrich
Collection: Years
Image of Lars Ulrich
What Metallica always tries to do, as we go around and play a lot of the same cities, over and over again, year after year, is to give a different experience. We try to never play the same venues, or if we play indoors, we'll play outdoors, and all that type of stuff. It's always about just trying to do a different kind of experience.
- Lars Ulrich
Collection: Years
Image of Jock Sturges
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
- Jock Sturges
Collection: Years
Image of Sugata Mitra
Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.
- Sugata Mitra
Collection: Years
Image of Tom Wolfe
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.
- Tom Wolfe
Collection: Years
Image of Emmanuel Jal
I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
- Emmanuel Jal
Collection: Years
Image of Richard Yates
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.
- Richard Yates
Collection: Years
Image of Thomas Dreier
The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.
- Thomas Dreier
Collection: Years
Image of Thomas J. Stanley
Most people have it all wrong about wealth in America. Wealth is not the same as income. If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier. You are just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.
- Thomas J. Stanley
Collection: Years
Image of Isaac Stern
I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.
- Isaac Stern
Collection: Years
Image of Helene Hanff
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?
- Helene Hanff
Collection: Years
Image of Helene Hanff
But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: "It's there.
- Helene Hanff
Collection: Years
Image of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Collection: Years
Image of Beverley Nichols
It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
- Beverley Nichols
Collection: Years
Image of Chris Guillebeau
The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.
- Chris Guillebeau
Collection: Years
Image of Ingrid Bergman
I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.
- Ingrid Bergman
Collection: Years
Image of Linda Hogan
A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.
- Linda Hogan
Collection: Years
Image of Russell Pearce
An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. Thats 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.
- Russell Pearce
Collection: Years
Image of Steve Aylett
One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.
- Steve Aylett
Collection: Years
Image of Sharon Kay Penman
I'd just rather not reap a crop every year.
- Sharon Kay Penman
Collection: Years
Image of Lee Kuan Yew
If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.
- Lee Kuan Yew
Collection: Years
Image of Ford Madox Ford
If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?
- Ford Madox Ford
Collection: Years
Image of Robin Jones Gunn
There are 365 "fear nots" in the Bible. One for every day of the year. Today I will fear not.
- Robin Jones Gunn
Collection: Years
Image of Mike Myers
I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.
- Mike Myers
Collection: Years
Image of Peter Brimelow
I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.
- Peter Brimelow
Collection: Years
Image of Malcolm Muggeridge
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Collection: Years
Image of Walter Scott
If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
- Walter Scott
Collection: Years
Image of Brady Udall
If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.
- Brady Udall
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Image of Richard Price
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day
- Richard Price
Collection: Years
Image of Ruth Rendell
Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.
- Ruth Rendell
Collection: Years
Image of Charlie Brooker
The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.
- Charlie Brooker
Collection: Years
Image of Gay Hendricks
Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.
- Gay Hendricks
Collection: Years
Image of Esa-Pekka Salonen
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Collection: Years
Image of Mary Lawson
Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all
- Mary Lawson
Collection: Years
Image of Ilya Prigogine
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.
- Ilya Prigogine
Collection: Years
Image of Pete Sampras
I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.
- Pete Sampras
Collection: Years
Image of Maya Rudolph
Honestly, because it's my third, I feel like I've been pregnant for like six years, seriously.
- Maya Rudolph
Collection: Years
Image of Juliette Binoche
A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and energy together, and having a vision that goes together and anchors the film as you go along.
- Juliette Binoche
Collection: Years
Image of Mark Ruffalo
It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.
- Mark Ruffalo
Collection: Years