Years Quotes

• In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Years
  • Shoes
  • Jeans

• Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Time
  • Good
  • Failure

• A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Raised
  • Indian
  • Outcast

• Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Knowledge
  • Information
  • Molecules

• I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Moving
  • Made
  • Research

• I could go speak to people for the next three years every day if I wanted to, but I'm not going to make my child do that.

  

  Ashley Smith
  • People
  • Years
  • Child

• The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

  

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer
  • Years
  • Lasts
  • Revolutionary

• Since last year I've been making the rounds talking to just about anyone who'll listen about this opportunity to re-establish a manufacturing base in the U.S.

  

  Bill Simon
  • Opportunity
  • Talking
  • Lasts

• The quarterly results we announced last week showed once again how far we have come on our journey over the past few years.

  

  Brian Moynihan
  • Years
  • Journey
  • Results

• Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Experience
  • Dad
  • Play

• Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • American
  • History
  • Administration

• Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Lost
  • Advice
  • Firsts

• We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Die
  • City
  • Deep

• I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-" Lily: "Slipped out? It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You’ve chosen your way, I’ve chosen mine.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Death

• I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Political
  • Respect

• I have to be able to stick to very dedicated times to work on things, do exactly as I say I'm going to do, show up when I say I'm going to show up and focus that's the only way I've been able to pull off everything last year but I'm hoping I'll never have to do that again, it's a hell of a lot of work that's for sure.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Work
  • Focus
  • Able

• Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

  

  Charles Nodier
  • Enemies
  • Our
  • Debts

• 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.

  

  Albert Ray Olpin
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • America
  • Years
  • Touring

• I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • Time
  • Father
  • Eight

• I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.

  

  Walter Mischel
  • Daughter
  • Thumbs
  • Pact

• He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Girl
  • Firsts
  • Saws

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