Years famous quotes

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
-- A. A. Gill

#Years #World #Draws

We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Years #Humanity #Suffering

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
-- A. E. Housman

#Years #Twenties

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
-- A. E. Housman

#Spring #Years #White

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
-- A. E. van Vogt

#Writing #Years #Ideas

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
-- A. E. van Vogt

#Science #Years #Fiction

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Compassion #Keys #Years

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Writing #Years #Fans

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Book #Utah #Years

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Health #Years #Disease

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Real #Fighting #Years

The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Years #Europe #Organization

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Years #Political #Heaven

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Drinking #Wine #Years

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Writing #Years

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Wise #Men #Years

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
-- A. P. Herbert

#Men #Years #Political

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
-- A. R. Ammons

#Years #Imagine #Hundred

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
-- A. R. Rahman

#New Year #Years #India

No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
-- A. Ray Olpin

#Learning #Thinking #Years

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’
-- A. Scott Berg

#Years #Ideas #Pockets

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
-- A. Scott Berg

#Years #Soul

I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.
-- A.S. King

#Baby #Years #Car

I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.
-- Aaron Allston

#Daughter #Years #Fire

We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.
-- Aaron Boone

#Team #Reality #Years

At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.
-- Aaron Broussard

#Dragons #Years #Going Out

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
-- Aaron Carter

#Coffee #Rocks #Years

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Jobs #New York #Years

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Thinking #Years #People

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.
-- Aaron Klug

#Teaching #Responsibility #Years

You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
-- Aaron Levie

#Talking #Years #Research

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
-- Aaron Neville

#Prayer #Book #Years

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time
-- Aaron Neville

#Kids #Years #Long

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants
-- Aaron Neville

#Running #Years #Pants

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
-- Aaron Paul

#School #Idaho #Years

If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.
-- Aaron Rodgers

#Winning #Years #Nfl

One-time revenue spikes that aren't repeatable won't help you achieve consistent year-after-year growth.
-- Aaron Ross

#Years #Growth #Helping

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Fall #Years #People

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Kings #Years #Stories

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
-- Aaron Spelling

#Patience #Thinking #Years

Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#Years #Watches #Fiction

My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#Boys #Years #Parent

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
-- Aaron Yoo

#Life #Jobs #Years

There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Beautiful #Thinking #Years

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
-- Abbe Pierre

#Keys #Years #Seven

Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim?
-- Abbey Lee Kershaw

#Years #Two #Apples

I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
-- Abbie Cornish

#Rap #Years #Blades

One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Dad #Years #One Day

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
-- Abdallah II

#Responsibility #Years #Balls

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
-- Abdallah II

#Spring #Thinking #Years

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
-- Abdallah II

#Moving #Years #Class

Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
-- Abdallah II

#Couple #Party #Years

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
-- Abdallah II

#Country #Israel #Years

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
-- Abdallah II

#Loss #Past #Years

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#Men #Years #Civilization

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
-- Abdul Kalam

#Technology #Years #Legacy

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge...
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak

#Years #Twenties #Manners

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak

#Wisdom #Islamic #Years

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
-- Aberjhani

#Years #Sometimes #Cry

I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
-- Abraham A. Ribicoff

#Years #Want

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard
-- Abraham J. Williams

#Years #Feet #Long

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Unique #Years #Two

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Government #Years #Space

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Years #Numbers #Heaven

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Medicine #Years #Suffering

There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Teacher #Shoes #Years

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
-- Abraham Verghese

#School #Years #Cynical

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Children #Years #Tragedy

It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.
-- Abram Hoffer

#Years #Medicine #Physicians

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.
-- Abram Joseph Ryan

#Art #Years #Tears

I've never read anything about ***** where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.
-- Ace Frehley

#Heart #Beer #Years

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
-- Ad Reinhardt

#Art #Years #Fifty

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
-- Adam Ant

#Guitar #Years #May

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
-- Adam Brody

#Kissing #Years #Stuff

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
-- Adam Carolla

#Years #Age #Shows

Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
-- Adam Carolla

#Basketball #Ymca #Years

I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
-- Adam Driver

#Lunch #Years #Four

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
-- Adam Duritz

#Believe #Years #Long

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
-- Adam Faith

#Writing #Sunday #Years

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
-- Adam Faith

#Dream #Blue #Years

The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'
-- Adam Ferrara

#Years #Funny Marriage #Parent

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
-- Adam Garcia

#Years #Two #Feet

I guess they have had 16 years when they haven't even been close in an Ashes series but we have found some sections of the crowd to be scathing and harsh. That has not been overly enjoyable. We have seen a pretty ugly side in some supporters.
-- Adam Gilchrist

#Years #Ashes #Crowds

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Years #Ingredients #Protein

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.
-- Adam Hochschild

#Determination #Years #Two

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.
-- Adam Kluger

#Strong #Years #Demand

Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.
-- Adam Kokesh

#4th Of July #Government #Years

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
-- Adam Lambert

#Men #Years #Female

In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon

#Years #Forget #Trouble

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
-- Adam McKay

#Thinking #Years #Hustle

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
-- Adam Oates

#School #Hockey #Years

Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
-- Adam Pascal

#Years #Lasts #Physics

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
-- Adam Rapp

#Years #Fifteen #My Sister

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
-- Adam Rapp

#Thinking #Compassion #Years

I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.
-- Adam Rapp

#Girl #Dog #Years

I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
-- Adam Sandler

#Years #House #Comedy

We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar.
-- Adam Sandler

#Years #Names #Looks

He has a 5 year plan... What is it, don't die?
-- Adam Sandler

#Funny #Years #Comedy

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
-- Adam Savage

#Couple #Glasses #Years

I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn't sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me. A bit of a crisis of faith, I suppose. I did some soul-searching, took a break and decided I was going to live my life only for me.
-- Adelaide Kane

#Years #People #Soul