Years Quotes

• The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

  

  William C. Somerville
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Four

• I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Trying
  • Track

• They made me look like I was 2 years old.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Years

• He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Quality
  • Suffering
  • Improvement

• Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Life
  • Last
  • Veronica Guerin

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

  

  Charles Nodier
  • Enemies
  • Our
  • Debts

• My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Time
  • School
  • Parents

• To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

  

  Alexis Taylor
  • Years
  • Audience
  • Smaller

• Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Hours
  • Activity
  • Idleness

• There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Job
  • Years
  • Barrel

• i feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.

  

  Breece D'J Pancake
  • Moving
  • Feels
  • Rings

• I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Long
  • Live
  • Past

• No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Years
  • Months
  • Hermione

• You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Long
  • Ideas
  • Stones

• 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

• The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Time
  • Childhood
  • Soil

• At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Years
  • Sport
  • Contributed

• If you've been playing for a few years...especially in a group context... you'll see if you have the ability ... or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to ...and you've got to love ..no matter what happens.

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Years
  • Playing
  • Group context

• I was very inspired by working women, and also women who aren't working yet! I want them to have shoes that feel luxurious and special and well-crafted and thought about. But also, they should have shoes that won't break the bank. You don't have to spend three years saving up for beautiful shoes.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• 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'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Culture
  • Violence
  • Years

• To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

  

  Rachel Hoffman
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Focus

• 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

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