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Years Quotes
"Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child."
10
"I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years."
10
"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it."
10
"I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years."
10
"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."
10
"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."
10
"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."
10
"It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years."
10
"I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it."
10
"It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson."
10
"Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive."
10
"We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore."
10
"We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do."
10
"My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling."
10
"We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year."
10
"Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge."
9
"Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling."
9
"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds."
9
"I didn't make a 147 until few years ago - I just wasn't the sort of player who went for them. But it's like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow."
9
"It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie."
9
"The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years."
9
"I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall."
9
"So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us."
9
"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."
8
"As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer."
8
"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."
8
"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."
8
"In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently."
8
"I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it."
8
"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
8
"The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me."
8
"The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five."
8
"And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively."
7
"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."
7
"I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician."
7
"The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive."
7
"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."
6
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