"Years" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Years"

"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

#Involved #Stories #Writing

"I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#Science Fiction #Fiction #Annuals

"Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#Book #Males #Ends

"If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered."

--- A. Edward Newton

#Love #Found #Life

"The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear."

--- A. Hunter Dupree

#Scene #Cathedrals #Many Hands

"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

#Important Lessons #Compassion #Neighbor

"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 #Newspapers #Typos

"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

#Noise #Europe #World

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

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Fighting #Loud Noises #Noise

"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

#Fans #Writing #Knows

"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

#Cures #Panic #Meds

"News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Newspapers #Might #Long

"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

#Heaven On Earth #Utopia #Moments

"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

#Four Years #Californians #United

"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

#That Moment #Moments #Young Man

"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 #Long Book #Long

"My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. K. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film."

--- A. O. Scott

#Source #May #Adults

"The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."

--- A. P. Herbert

#People #Reality #Life

"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

#Five Years #Circumstances #Made

"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

#Imagine #Summary #Five

"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 #New Year Greetings #Dear

"I've been doing music for many years and after a point what is the motivation that drives you to compose and to do stuff? I did this song for the U.N., a fighting for poverty anthem. That's when I realized that I could do a foundation. And when I started the foundation, it was basically to fight poverty and to help - that kind of stuff."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Fighting #Anthem #Foundation

"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

#Thinking #Learning #Used

"I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years."

--- A. Scott Berg

#Book #Moved On #Two Years

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

--- A. Scott Berg

#Soul #Knows #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

#Said #Years #Pockets

"I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Beautiful #Sea #Years

"I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding."

--- A.M. Homes

#Thinking #Book #Five Years

"Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from."

--- A.M. Homes

#Different Sides #Agreement #Happened

"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

#Life #Universal #Airline

30 "Years" Quotes