Years Quotes
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My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
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History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.
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Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
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Santa is having a tough time this year. Last year he deducted eight billion for gifts, and the IRS wants an itemized list.
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Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
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Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
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I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years.
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I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
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I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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The shows need youth. All of our comics are getting too famous to do the show regularly. The people who are regulars five years ago, a lot of them have moved on and can't do the show anymore. We can't really get Jim Gaffigan anymore, we can't get Nick Swardson anymore.
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I've been around for nine or 10 years with him. You never ever know what he's going to do, so you can expect anything. Hey, as long as we're collecting wins when he's doing it, that's all that counts.
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The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.
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When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
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Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
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I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.
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Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?
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Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.
